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TIL three candidates running for mayor in a Romanian town had the same name. None of them were related.

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awrgN TIL Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who developed Nazi superweapons during WWII, was one of many German scientists secretly brought to the US to help win the Space Race. He would go on to develop the Saturn V rocket, which carried Apollo 11 to the moon.
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