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TIL that Coco Chanel was a Nazi agent
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TIL that Uranium is the heaviest element in nature.
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TIL: Susan Bennet, the voice of Siri, didn't even know she had been chosen for Siri, and was only able to get the job because the previous voice-over artist selected for it was absent at the time she was needed. She learned she was Siri when a friend contacted her in October 2011.
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TIL Colombia was the only Latin American country to send soldiers to aide The United States in the Korean War. They sent 5,100 men in what was known as the “1st Colombian Battalion”. They were rewarded for their “exemplary performance” during Operation Nomad and Operation Thunderbolt.
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TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
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TIL in 1494, Christopher Columbus recorded an encounter with the now-extinct Caribbean Monk Seal near the island of Hispaniola, his men killed 8 seals as they slept on the beach