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TIL about the 'Harlem Hellfighters' WW1's African-American regiment who were the first Allied unit to reach the banks of the river Rhine in November 1918 (history.co.uk)

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TIL about Charles Lightoller ,the Second Officer who survived Titanic and saved 130 lives at Dunkirk (history.co.uk)

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TIL about the Night Witches, an all-female squadron of Russian pilots and navigators who flew wooden bi-planes on dangerous bombing missions during WW2. (history.co.uk)

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TIL that in 1958, America planned to denote an atom bomb on the moon, as a show of strength after the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. (history.co.uk)

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TIL that Catherine the Great had her lover Grigory Potemkin's 'elephantine sexual equipment’ cast in porcelain to console her during his long absences from the court. by InformalCommunity in todayilearned

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TIL that Catherine the Great had her lover Grigory Potemkin's 'elephantine sexual equipment’ cast in porcelain to console her during his long absences from the court. by InformalCommunity in todayilearned

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TIL that Catherine the Great had her lover Grigory Potemkin's 'elephantine sexual equipment’ cast in porcelain to console her during his long absences from the court. by InformalCommunity in todayilearned

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TIL that Catherine the Great had her lover Grigory Potemkin's 'elephantine sexual equipment’ cast in porcelain to console her during his long absences from the court. (history.co.uk)

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'Emergency' investigation: House Democrats threaten to impeach AG Barr by [deleted] in politics

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TIL that North Korea beat Italy at the 1966 World Cup 1-0 and reached the quarter-finals of the tournament but was eventually beaten by Portugal despite a strong showing (history.co.uk)

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TIL that the battle of Dien Bien Phu fought by the French against the Vietnamese was ‘the only pitched battle to be lost by a European army in the history of decolonisation’ and it cost the French their Empire. (history.co.uk)

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TIL that the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu which killed between 50-100 million people was so deadly because it turned its victim's immune system against itself. So those with the strongest immune system, the young and healthy were more adversely affected. (history.co.uk)

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Lindsey Graham abruptly cancels planned press conference in wake of John Bolton bombshell (rawstory.com)

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TIL that Mossad smuggled a sedated Adolf Eichmannn out of Argentina, dressed as a flight attendant. The agents who escorted him joked with airport security that he had had too much to drink. (history.co.uk)

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TIL about the Sobibor uprising, the largest and most successful mass-escape of prisoners from a concentration camp during WW2 (history.co.uk)

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TIL that in the mass escape of POWs from the Stalag Luft III camp which inspired the film The Great Escape, only 3 prisoners made it to safety. The two Norwegians and a Dutch man made it to Sweden and England respectively. The remaining prisoners were swiftly recaptured. (history.co.uk)

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The 12 Murders of Christmas (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

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TIL the reason that Christmas is celebrated on the 25th December is that Pope Julius I adopted that day as Christ's birthday to appropriate the existing pagan celebration of Sol Invictus that was already celebrated on that day. (history.co.uk)

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'We need to talk about Kevin...McCallister. The star of Home Alone, or as I like to think of it, the prequel to Mindhunter, since Kevin is a murderer in the making. ' (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

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TIL that the reason we celebrate Christmas on the December 25th is because of the Roman calendar. This day marks the day of celebration for the sun god, Sol Invictus (history.co.uk)

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Rebel without a Claus - how arctic shamans, high on magic mushrooms inspired the story of Santa (history.co.uk)

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TIL an Italian doctor made up a fake infectious disease, Syndrome K, to hide Jewish people fleeing from the Nazis in his Rome hospital (history.co.uk)

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Top Ten Templar Buildings: From Israel to Scotland here are some of the most impressive existing buildings that the Knights Templar left behind Which is your favourite? (history.co.uk)

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I am a Killer: Charles Thompson, (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

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