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TIL Hitler's private train was named Amerika.

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GAljg TIL that the last of the kidnappers convicted of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping (in which 3 kidnappers hijacked a school bus with 26 children on board and forced them into a moving truck buried in a quarry before they escaped after 16 hours underground) was paroled in 2022.
W7w98 TIL David Bowie was born David Jones. When starting out, Davy Jones of The Monkees was already famous and so he had to choose a different stage name. His first choice was Tom Jones.
QJlGp TIL when Robert E Lee and the Confederate army surrendered, Union soldiers saluted them and gave them rations (the confederate soldiers were starving). Normally victorious armies would taunt defeated ones, but Ulysses S Grant respected the Confederates too much and ordered that they be treated well.
KYdd6 TIL Margaret of Provence, queen consort of France, was the only woman to ever lead a crusade, when her husband was captured and she was in charge of his army and the negotiations to rescue him.
N4a8 TIL Al Capone pioneered the concept of “sell by” dates.