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TIL at age 16, Queen Anne of Romania fled from the Nazi Germans in 1939 and eventually escaped to the US. She attended college in NY and worked as a sales assistant at Macy’s department store. In 1943, she volunteered for military service in the French Army, where she received the Cross of war

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9YLR7 TIL Rudolf Mößbauer, age 32, won the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the Mößbauer effect named after him. During the Cold War he was one of the first to organize Seminars with Soviet physicists, long before this became feasible for US colleagues
69E6Z TIL the 1930 Philadelphia Phillies hold the record for most hits in a season at 1783, yet finished in last place due to a 6.71 earned run average, which is also a record high for the modern era.
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