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TIL that there is a failed Nazi village in the middle of Paraguay with only two old Germans left

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eLGn TIL the term “third world country” has nothing to do with poverty, it simply refers to countries after WW2 that did not align with either the Western US aligned coalition or the Soviet bloc.
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