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TIL The first attempt to make an anti-Nazi film in America was Herman J Mankiewicz's "The Mad Dog of Europe" in 1933. The film floundered in early production and was ultimately never produced because no studio would risk being banned in Germany.

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7r7GM TIL about Janet Parker, the last person on record to die of smallpox. In 1978, Parker worked above a U.K. research laboratory conducting experiments with the pathogen. Today smallpox is officially held at only two places in the world, the CDC in the U.S. and the Vector Institute in Russia.
KOyQ6 TIL about a British man who bought a ceramic pot at a junk sale for less than £4 and used it as a toothbrush holder until learning it was actually made in the Indus Valley of present-day Afghanistan about 4,000 years ago. It's thought the pot was originally brought to the UK by British tourists.
4XaNN TIL Disney uses code names in the park. Rude visitors are called 'Treasured Guests.' Vomit is called 'Protein Spill.' Kids peeing in the pool is called 'Code Winnie.' Illegally spreading ashes is called 'White Powder Alert.'
N7vRJ TIL a Jacksonville Florida man who wished to remain anonymous bought over 100 generators (at about $450 each) to send to the Bahamas via the Errol Thurston Bahamas Hurricane Relief Fund. (A fellow Florida man in line with him at Costco noticed it and posted about the man's deed on social media).
N9M6 TIL A researcher in Antarctica got a date via Tinder with a woman who was at a field camp 45 minutes away