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TIL Cambodian rock of the 1960s and 1970s was a thriving and prolific music scene, but was abruptly crushed by the Khmer Rouge communists in 1975, and many of its musicians disappeared or were executed during the ensuing Cambodian genocide.

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BrBRL TIL of Konstantinos Koukidis, the Greek sentry on duty when the German Army reached the ancient Acropolis during their 1941 invasion. He was ordered to lower the Greek flag and raise the Nazi one but instead he lowered the Greek flag, wrapped himself in it, and jumped to his death from the rock.
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