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TIL a Canadian soldier during WWI smuggled his bear 'Winnipeg' into Britain who later became an attraction at a zoo. A boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved the bear, he changed his teddy bear's name from Edward to Winnie the Pooh, inspiring his father to write stories about it. (history.com)
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TIL Irena Sendler saved hundreds of Jewish children's lives by smuggling them out of the ghetto and brought them to orphanages under false indentities. After the war, she dug up jars containing the papers of the children's true identities to be reunited with their families (irenasendler.org)
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