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TIL Black American soldiers had to sit behind Nazi POWs at concerts.

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gMP7y TIl in 2010, the city of Belleville, Illinois, banned trick-or-treating for kids over 12. Teens can face fines from $100 to $1,000 for going door-to-door.
VMrnZ TIL about the 80s Pakistani action flick, Hitlar, in which der Führer settles down in Pakistan and sires a son. The son of Hitler -Hitlar - spends his days terrorizing a small town, using his musical sting to petrify his enemies, and conversing with paintings of his dead Nazi father.
jZkN TIL that English speakers pronounce the world “colonel” as “kernel” because we adopted the French pronunciation (coronel), but the Italian spelling (colonello).
aG40 TIL Jimmy Carter is the only American president to have visited Hiroshima’s ground zero
m1abE TIL Leontyne Price was the first African American Opera soprano to receive international acclaim for her performances. (And she's 98 years old!)