Mind-blowing Facts That Literally Nobody Has Heard Before

Thank God He Didn't Get It

During the heat of WWII, a Swedish politician sent a letter of nomination into the Nobel foundation to attempt to award Adolph Hitler with a Nobel Peace Prize. The man retracted his nomination and later said it was just a joke. He did it because Hitler banned Germans from accepting any foreign awards four years before the Nobel Peace Prize was to be awarded. 

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