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TIL New Zealand was undiscovered and COMPLETELY DEVOID of human beings no more than 800 years ago.

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loep5 TIL that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II.
aj8b TIL French fashion designer, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (1883 –1971), along with being anti-semitic, homophobic, and addicted to morphine, was a spy for the Third Reich.
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6E1wQ TIL that there existed a female equivalent to "Jackass": "Rad Girls".