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TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegan, teenage sisters who lured, ambushed and killed German Nazis from their bicycles—and never revealed how many they had assassinated.

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5YOKB TIL that when Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States he made 2 requests: to visit Disneyland and meet John Wayne
eRYL TIL The first postage stamp to depict a nude woman was printed in Spain in 1930, in commemoration of Goya’s painting ‘La maja desnuda’ (the nude maja). In the same year, the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps.
x6Ayb TIL there is a better preserved ancient city than Pompeii just nearby. Herculaneum, where the skeletons of the victims are represented (not plaster casts)
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