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TIL American news magazine TIME named Adolph Hitler Man of the Year in 1938

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v1aK8 TIL that Americans threw $8.5m worth of silver coins into the sea before the fall of the Philippines. American and Filipino POW divers were coerced by the Japanese to recover it but they sabotaged the operation by secretly appropriating some portions of the haul to fund the Philippine Resistance.
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1aX1O TIL, In Greek, Beta is pronounced like a V and MP is used in place of B