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TIL The Three Stooges were Jewish, often used Yiddish in place of gibberish, and were the first in Hollywood to satirize Hitler in 1940 - nine months before Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator

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Yp51P TIL When Alan Alda was seven years old he contracted polio. To combat the disease his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles.
vPv8B TIL about the Battle of Crysler’s Farm where a British-Canadian force managed to hold off an American army nearly 10x their size.
ydgM TIL the US has a uniformed service that requires all applicants to have Bachelor’s degrees, and whose primary mission is one of science
aYLb TIL that before the French coined the term, “camouflage,” the British during WW1 called it “Dazzle-painting”.
jNGEE Til Horses originated in North America and spread to every Afro Eurasia and South America, only to become extinct in North America where they originated from. They were then reintroduced back to North America by humans. They have been in every continent including Antarctica now.