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TIL that President Roosevelt's dog, Fala, was so well known to Americans during his presidency that American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge would ask each other what the president's dog was named in order to prove that they weren't Germans in disguise.

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d8xMB TIL that, barred from working by the Nazis as a Jewish actor, Leon Reuss tricked them into celebrating him as an Aryan idol by adjusting his dialect to that of mountain farmers, growing his beard, bleaching his hair by bathing every 10 days in diluted hydrogen peroxide, & claiming to be a peasant.
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XEvKX TIL The true meaning of 'Aloha' in Hawaiian is love, peace and compassion. The literal translation of Aloha from Hawaiian to English is “the presence of breath”. “Alo” is a Hawaiian word for presence and “ha” means “breath”.