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Apr 01, 2020

TIL In Saxony, sometime in the early 1900s, a lady asked a man standing in uniform on a train station platform to move her trunk. He replied "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like one". The man turned out to be Frederick August III, King of Saxony.

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Feb 16, 2020

TIL of Eric Erickson, a Swedish businessman who pretended to be devoted to the Nazis, but was really a spy for the American military. He made more than 30 trips to Germany between 1939-1945. He mapped out oil refineries that were later bombed. His family had disowned him for “supporting” Hitler.

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