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Front page TIL post linking to Wiki says Japan planned to use the Plague against San Diego but surrended 5 weeks earlier

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Why didn't Nazi Germany kill all the people in concentration camps before their collapse?

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How bad was Vlad The Impaler really?

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During World War 2 Britain had a pronounciation test for suspected German spies. Similar to "Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Woolworths". Apparently Germans found the pronounciation extremely difficult and anybody who couldn't say it was suspected of being German. Does anybody know what it is?

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Spitting Image clamed that the only nice South African during the Apartheid era was Breyton Breytonbach and he's emigrated to Paris. Who was Beyton Beytonbrach? All I can find was that he was an author who was falsely accused of belonging to a non-existent terrorist group.

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Any comments about this Daily Mail article concerning the twentieth century histories of Germany, Poland and Russia?

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Gerald R. Ford was a rather minor US President, why does he get the Ford class of carriers?

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How anti-Semitic was non-German mainland Europe in the period 1933-39?

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Another week, another Ken Livingstone statement saying the SS and Hitler were really Semites

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IT has been said that the CIA, started the Vietnam War via "Operation Farm Gate".

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Front page TIL post linking to Wiki says Japan planned to use the Plague against San Diego but surrended 5 weeks earlier	398
Why didn't Nazi Germany kill all the people in concentration camps before their collapse?	273
How bad was Vlad The Impaler really?	170
During World War 2 Britain had a pronounciation test for suspected German spies. Similar to "Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Woolworths". Apparently Germans found the pronounciation extremely difficult and anybody who couldn't say it was suspected of being German. Does anybody know what it is?	36
Spitting Image clamed that the only nice South African during the Apartheid era was Breyton Breytonbach and he's emigrated to Paris. Who was Beyton Beytonbrach? All I can find was that he was an author who was falsely accused of belonging to a non-existent terrorist group.	12
Any comments about this Daily Mail article concerning the twentieth century histories of Germany, Poland and Russia?	6
Gerald R. Ford was a rather minor US President, why does he get the Ford class of carriers?	4
How anti-Semitic was non-German mainland Europe in the period 1933-39?	3
Another week, another Ken Livingstone statement saying the SS and Hitler were really Semites	2
IT has been said that the CIA, started the Vietnam War via "Operation Farm Gate".	1