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TIL that doctors were seven times as likely to join the Nazi Party as other employed men in Germany

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69mjQ TIL that in 1874, Irish-American prospector Nellie Cashman defied the Canadian Army’s warnings and led a party that rescued 75 miners trapped in the Cassiar Mountains. She trekked for over two months on snowshoes.
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