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TIL at the 1945 Postdam Conference, Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin couldn’t agree on who should enter the door to the meeting room first. After much debate, they settled on an agreeable plan: They switched to a different room so they could enter at precisely the same time using 3 separate doors.

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