# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

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**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")\
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During WWII, Germany was seeking information about rumors that Churchill and Roosevelt were planning on meeting. They obtained a snippet of information that the meeting place was Casablanca. But a translator who was translating the information into German somehow assumed this was the Spanish words casa blanca rather than a reference to the city in Morocco. So he had the report saying they were meeting at the White House.

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