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TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies

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gRJX TIL that a Pizza Hut manager during the Joplin tornado saved many lives by herding customers into a walk in freezer and bungee cording his arm to the freezer door before being sucked into the tornado and killed.
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neGPd TIL that if she is still reigning in four years' time, Queen Elizabeth II will become history's longest-reigning monarch.
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