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TIL That the French Embassy in Denmark is located in the Thott Palace, also called the Thott Mansion

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9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.
mxPKE TIL Gurkha single handedly killed 30 Taliban insurgents fighting them off with a machine gun, rifle, grenades, a machine gun tripod and a sandbag.
KPoB TIL Hitlerszalonna, or “Hitler Bacon,” was the nickname given to a dense jam eaten by Hungarian soldiers and citizens during WWII. Before the war, the Austrian Emporer would send troops packages of bacon (Kaiser Bacon), but when Hitler took over the bacon was replaced with fruit jam, hence the name.
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e0GZ4 TIL, Dmitry Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990, the only Marshal born in Siberia, and at the time of his death on 25 February 2020 the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union.