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TIL that the character of Abed Nadir from Community is one of the few pop culture characters seen as a reasonably accurate representation of Autism, and is especially important because he rarely falls into the Pinocchio Syndrome (I just want to be a real boy!) trope so common in movies and tv.

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QNZee TIL The "Clown Song" is actually called "Entry of the Gladiators" and it was meant as a military marching song.
oYWL TIL WWII concentration camps in Croatia were even more brutal than those in Nazi Germany. Prisoners were cremated alive, disemboweled and thrown in rivers, killed with mallets, drowned in latrines, tied together in groups and thrown down 300m shafts. On a bet, Petar Brzica, cut the throats of 1,360.
rRwZ0 TIL that when Norway was occupied by the Germans in WW2, the Nazis made the Lebensborn program where Norwegian girls were forced into mating with Nazi officers and having their children. One of the Lebensborn women grew up to be Frida Lyngstad, who was a member of the Swedish band ABBA.
XlgE TIL that Eva Braun’s relationship with Hitler was kept secret from the German people and few knew of her existence.
XOMR TIL that the Ichthys symbol (The Jesus Fish) was a pagan symbol of fertility, which included representing the Vulva of Isis.