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TIL Anne Frank’s father Otto earned 2 Iron Crosses fighting at the Somme and Cambrai in WW1 before surviving Auschwitz

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69Eem TIL that from 2004 to 2005, the constituency of Basingstoke in Southern England was represented by the DUP, a Northern Irish political party when its MP, Andrew Hunter, defected to them
KOKGw TIL Jerry Seinfeld was 38 when he started dating Shoshanna, then a 17 year old high schooler whom he met in a park
6Ew1m [TIL] The only original flying Fw190 from WW2, was found intact in a forest outside Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Russia in 1989.
awJNo TIL The Help Celebrate Our 150th American Independence Day in 1926, Poland Presented President Coolidge with a birthday present to America as a big thank you for aid during WW1. The present was an 11 volume, 300,000 pages of 5.5 million (1/6 of population then) signatures from polish people.
axLN TIL that a bowl of PF Chang’s hot and sour soup contains 7980mg of sodium. Nearly three and a half days worth of the recommended daily allowance.