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TIL that a London couple kept a man from Nigeria as their slave for 24 years before he finally escaped. After their arrests they were sentenced to 6 years in prison.

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DQeGg TIL that in the 1930s the founder of Porsche made a deal with Adolf Hitler to create the first ever Volkswagen and also helped make German tanks/weapons for WW2
x6Lg1 TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi who lived in China. He safeguarded 300,000 Chinese civilians from the Japanese during the “Rape of Nanking” and is regarded a hero in the city with numerous monuments dedicated to him.
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