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TIL The most easterly Führer Headquarters was located in Ukraine. Hitler spent 3 months in it in 1942 and issued his fateful Directive 45 trying to reach both Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields simultaneously from that place

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R5d7j TIL France was still executing criminals by guillotine after ABBA won Eurovision
m1x6O TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who survived both the Bataan Death March and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He was tortured more than other prisoners because he was mistaken for being a Japanese American traitor. After the war he returned home to New Mexico and lived to 77.
Yp4AP TIL that a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's in 2005
loDoK TIL Mt. Rushmore was traditionally known as the Six Grandfathers (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe). Named by Lakota medicine man after a vision of the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below; said to represent kindness and love, full of years and wisdom, like human grandfathers.
DQeje TIL that before Julia Child became a world renowned chef, she was a research assistant for Secret Intelligence in WWII. In the precursor to the CIA, she helped develop a shark repellant for life vests and mines that is still used today.