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TIL that although The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed over 80% of the city - only six deaths were officially recorded.

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ANmdw TIL that, in 1967, Joseph Stalin's daughter briefly lived in East Berlin, Pennsylvania after defecting to the United States
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