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TIL that Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, he was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000($387,575,106.38), believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.

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QNxQ6 TIL that the CPR doll is modeled after a real person. Her name was L'Inconnue de la Seine and she drowned in a river near Paris. She has come to be known as “the most kissed face in the world”.
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