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TIL Rolex gave watches to British prisoners in WW2 and allowed them to pay after they had been released. One of these watches was sold for more than $65,000 in Sydney, Australia in 2006.

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OGAb6 TIL that Paul Ignatius, America's Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War is still alive at the age of 103
J7PB TIL Cindarella is based on an old Greek fairy tale about a slave-girl who marries the pharaoh.
l7JyV TIL the socialist leaders had a fraternal kiss
9wwoM TIL that the world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years
4Oa5 TIL there is a World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, where “the goal is to return the swastika’s true meaning of peace and harmony to this ancient symbol regretfully hijacked by the Nazis”