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5VM59 TIL Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI got married by Proxy. Marie's own brother stood in for the groom during the ceremony, and she only met her husband for the first time a month after their marriage
MJQ7 TIL that at the end of WWII, Canada had the 3rd largest navy and the 4th largest air force despite only having a population of 12 million
kJpQ1 TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly killed by Japan's top fighter ace
GLY5 TIL, a lieutenant in the Nazi army, Albert Battel, refused to round up Jews and haul them to the Belzec extermination camp. Instead he brought them to a local military barracks for protection. Battel was later discharged in 1944 and settled in West Germany.
mMaO TIL despite rising sea levels, Finland’s geographic elevation is actually rising relative to the ocean