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The Nazi party tried to turn Christmas into a nonreligious holiday celebrating the coming of Hitler, with Saint Nicholas replaced by Odin the "Solstice Man" and swastikas on top of Christmas trees.

Leka II, Crown Prince of Albania, was born in South Africa. The South African government declared his maternity ward temporarily Albanian territory to ensure that Leka was born on Albanian soil.

The German city of Konstanz, which sits on the Swiss border, survived World War 2 without being bombed by leaving all house and streetlights lit at night, making Allied bombers raiding nearby Dornier and Zeppelin aircraft factories think it was part of Switzerland.

The surname Stuart was created by Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, to ensure that the French said her name correctly since they tend to pronounce "w" like "v".

Women used to wear foot long pins in their hats which could be used in self-defense to stab men who groped or assaulted them.

After the husband of Olga of Kiev got murdered, she went after the culprits and not only did she obliterate their whole families through relentless murder, but also destroyed their city by burning the whole city to the ground with pigeons and sparrows.

Dr. Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand (but not his right hand) every day for more than 60 years to prove that it does not give you arthritis. Neither hand got arthritis and he won the bet with his mother.

Organophosphates, including the chemical weapon Sarin Gas, work by inhibiting your muscle's ability to relax. Your muscles basically constrict and can't unconstrict, causing what feels like a muscle cramp through your entire body - your arms, your chest, your eyes, your tongue, everything. It most frequently kills via asphyxiation, because you can't exhale. Surviving means a permanent, irrecoverable loss of motor function, even with rapid medical treatment.

Placing a plasma globe lamp in proximity to devices such as laptops or phones generates a radio signal potent enough to interfere with their functionality.

The Villa Rose, seemingly an innocuous pink, two-story family home in the Swiss countryside, serves as a disguised military installation during wartime. Concealing massive guns, it formed part of the Toblerone Line, a defensive barrier erected to safeguard Switzerland from potential invasion.