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TIL: Some consider the letter 'R' a vowel
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TIL of Richard Stern, a German-Jewish WW1 veteran and subject of a famous photo, where he stands in the door of his shop wearing his old Iron Cross during the Nazi crackdown on Jewish businesses. Fleeing to the U.S., he joined the Army at age 43 to fight the Nazis. He was awarded a Silver Star
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TIL a German air traffic controller was upset at a British pilot and asked him rudely if he had never been to Frankfurt before. The British pilot replied “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark…and I didn’t land.”
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TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods to extract information from people without extracting fingernails and stressed on importance of psychological over physical torture, i.e. intense fear, deep exhaustion, solitary confinement and unbearable anxiety which destroy ones capacity to resist.
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TIL M&M's were created in 1941 to provide the military with chocolate that didn't melt. During WW2 M&M's were exclusively sold to the military.
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TIL the towns of Boring, USA, Dull, Scotland, and Bland, Australia Teamed Up to Create the League of Extraordinary Communities.