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TIL: The Nazis during WW2 formed a plan called ‘Operation Bernard’ in which they were to crash Englands economy by counterfeiting £132m GBP and dropping it over England by planes. This would be worth £8.3bn today.
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TIL that the notion of Germans being hard workers is a myth. Germany actually has the LEAST cumulative work hours out of all developed nations, with Mexico working the most.
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TIL there is a village in the Netherlands comprised entirely of people with dementia. It’s been called a “Truman Show for the elderly.”
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TIL Before her marriage to Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing was an actress in 1930s Chinese cinema. Her co-star an actress named Li Lili frequently upstaged her. Decades later during the Cultural Revolution, Jiang ordered the arrest and torture of Li and her husband. Li survived but her husband did not.
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TIL the lowest form of accommodation in Victorian England was access to bend over a rope for the night for the price of a penny. It is said to be the origin of the term "Hungover".