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TIL Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (whose family had fled the Nazi occupation during WWII) was born in an Ottawa hospital where it was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government, so that the newborn would only inherit Dutch citizenship and not be a British subject.

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5VKaB TIL: The Allies raided a Nazi chemical company in 1944 and interrogated a chemist due to the amount of radioactive material involved. However, they learned that he was not working on nukes, but radioactive toothpaste known as Duramad, using radiation to kill germs. Some samples are in a museum now.
QNLVX TIL Ulysses S. Grant personally disliked Napoleon, Napoleon III (he disliked him the most), and the Bonaparte family in general
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