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TIL of August Landmesser, the "lone German man" who refused to give Hitler the nazi salute 'cause he was engaged to a Jewish woman; he was later imprisoned while she was sent to a concentration camp

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ke5B TIL that more than a hundred American and German sailors died in a naval confrontation in the Samoas in 1889, despite neither side firing a shot. The captains on both sides refused to show ‘weakness’ by taking steps to prepare for an oncoming hurricane.
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