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TIL that Hitler's Iron Cross was recommended to him by a Jewish WWI army officer named Hugo Gutmann.

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4k4l6 TIL that the Nika Riots of 532 AD, which destroyed half of Constantinople and killed tens of thousands, began as chariot race hooliganism.
grP9X Today I learned , In December 1801, in exchange for 2,641,920 acres (10,691.5 km2) of land, the Choctaw Indians received merchandise worth about $2,000 plus three sets of tools for blacksmithery.
VMnWG TIL that North Korea's frog population mostly disappeared in 1995. It is believed that they were eaten by starving villagers at the start of the Great Famine.
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