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I asked my German friend to draw me a circular statistical diagram.

by cringeyjokesman January 20, 2022, 11:41 pm

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TIL German was the first language of the majority of households until the 1950s in Schaumburg (Illinois)

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 3:48 pm

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I’m a European frog; mostly French, a bit German, and…

by cringeyjokesman January 18, 2022, 6:43 am

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TIl in 1987 a West German teenager shocked the world, by flying through Soviet air defences to land a Cessna aeroplane in Red square. Mathias Rust, just 19, had single-handedly flown more than 500 miles through every Soviet defensive shield in a single-engine plane to land at the Kremlin.

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 4:07 am

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TIL that singer Al Bowlly was killed by a German parachute mine in his London home in 1941. He recorded over a thousand songs in his career, including “Midnight, the Stars and You”, which is played in the final moments of the film “The Shining”.

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 6:59 pm

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What is the German word for a bra?

by cringeyjokesman January 14, 2022, 2:52 pm

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TIL – A small group of German soldiers were forgotten on a remote British island, and only surrendered three weeks after the war had ended

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 2:38 pm

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TIL That the Russians made the Kremlin ‘disappear’ during WWII to escape Nazi Germany bombing. Despite 95 German aerial raids by night and 30 raids during the daytime, carried out by 7200 bombers, the Kremlin suffered basically no damage

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 3:07 am

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Help with the name of a book? About a Dutch German Soldier in WWII?

by HistoryBuff January 9, 2022, 5:00 pm

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TIL that former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a heavy smoker. He was well known for lighting up during TV interviews and talk shows. He was also charged with defying smoking bans. In 1981 he got a pacemaker. Despite these he died as the longest living chancellor at the age of 96.

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 4:23 pm

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TILabout an astronomer who in 1986been tryin to trace a 75 cent computer time discrepancy for 10 months found a German hacker selling defense secrets to the KGB!

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 6:50 pm

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TIL The German army employed large numbers of captured soviet T-34s tanks. they were designated by the Germans as Panzerkampfwagen T-34 747(r). In order to prevent recognition mistakes, large swastikas were painted on the tanks, in order to prevent attack by Axis aircraft.

by whatilearned December 9, 2021, 12:19 pm

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