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The Zimmermann Telegram

Germany secretly offered to help Mexico reconquer Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico if the U.S. entered World War I — British codebreakers intercepted the message, and it directly helped pull America into the war.

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Berlin Wall Escape Tunnels

Ordinary East Berlin residents dug hand-carved tunnels dozens of feet underground, sometimes for months, to smuggle friends and strangers to freedom — and West German students and even NBC News helped fund and film some of the most daring ones.

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