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TIL Peter Sellers lines in the classic flick Dr Strangelove were mostly improvised by Sellers on the set, including the spontaneous uncontrollable Nazi salute. Kubrick then included the lines in the official screenplay via retroscripting. The character was based on former Nazi Wernher von Braun

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Wab4 TIL that the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea paint their shields with images of the Phantom comic book character after American GIs shared their comic books with tribe members during World War II
RJr9 TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War
e5W4 TIL Disney murdered scores of Lemmings for the ‘suicide scene’ in the 1958 movie White Wilderness. Producers pushed and threw them off a cliff while shooting footage of the cruelty, then framed it as a natural occurrence for the audience.
grOeA TIL that a Schandmantel was a torture device fashioned from wood and sometimes metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The Schandmantel was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes
BpVD TIL Tommy Chong used to be in a band called Four Niggers and a Chink.