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TIL Henry Ford was a big admirer of Adolf Hitler, and continued to do business with in Nazi Germany, including building war materiel and using French POWs as slave labor. Hitler also admired Ford, keeping a life size portrait of him next to his desk.

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1adAV TIL: In a village in India, an Indian robin had made a nest and laid her eggs on the village's switchboard. The village decided to go without street lights for over a month for the safety of the bird and to allow her eggs to hatch. After 45 days, the bird and its hatchlings safely flew away.
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