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TIL the first Nobel Prize was awarded to Henry Dunant for founding the Red Cross

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VBAoD TIL about Leon Trotsky’s grandson who lived to survive Stalin regimes assassination attempts and ran a museum dedicated to his grandfather in Mexico
awxwy TIL that the Nazi SS organization included volunteers from many ethnicity from Albania, Hungary, India, Sweden, the UK, etc.
KO5OB TIL President Truman was opposed to McCarthyism, which was a means of deplatforming suspected communists without technically violating the first amendment, largely by barring them from employment. "In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have."
69GxW TIL that the Iffland-Ring is a ring worn by the most significant/worthy German-speaking actor. Each wearer is nominated by the previous wearer, the current being Jens Harzer who was nominated by Bruno Ganz.
D1nAr TIL famous SF author Philip K. Dick wrote a novel in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States. He also contacted the FBI about a perceived plot, apparently having been asked to put certain code words in his novels meant as a message.