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TIL of the Association of German National Jews - a pro-Nazi Jewish organisation. Founded in 1921 as an anti-communist body it wholeheartedly supported the Nazis arguing their anti-Semitic stance was only rhetoric. It was banned in 1935 and it's founder taken by the Gestapo.

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J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.
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