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TIL the current royal family of Sweden was founded by one of Napoleon’s Marshals of France.

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jNAmR TIL in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers after they refused to end their strike and subsequently banned them from federal service for life
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lonDN TIL when the Nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books he said, "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."
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