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TIL that at 9:55 pm every night many soldiers on both sides of WWII in Europe tuned their radios to the same station (the German-controlled Radio Belgrade) to listen to a nightly broadcast of the wistful love song "Lili Marleen", which had been virtually unknown before the war

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