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TIL: The game Chinese checkers was created in Germany

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J1rek TIL about Peter Hagendorf a German mercenary who fought during the 30 years war and kept a diary. In it he casually describes the death of several of his children, being shot and abducting women.
8aoBP TIL that while working in Naval Intelligence during WW2 Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, worked on a plan to steal an enigma machine by having British officers dress up as crashed Luftwaffe crew. The plan had the approval of Alan Turing and became the inspiration for Operation Mincemeat.
wRkE TIL A breastfeeding son “spotted cancer” in mother by refusing to feed from breast with cyst.
rNBJo TIL the first ever honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters was Henry Kissinger
N79le TIL a study of attitudes toward age gap relationships found that they were frowned on, regardless of whether the man or the woman was older, but it was only when the man was older that the relationship was considered unequal.