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TIL in 2015 A man had his sentence doubled after an appeal judge decided his original 4 year sentence received from starting a toilet fire on a commercial aircraft from a cigarette was too lenient

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6EbDm TIL Australian children's author Jackie French wrote a critically acclaimed novel called "Hitler's Daughter". Hitler's secret daughter, Heidi, escaped from the ruins of Berlin and emigrated to Australia, where she grew old and eventually revealed the truth to her granddaughter
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