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TIL about Franca Viola and the fact that in Italy up until 1981 an accusation of sexual violence would lapse if the perpetrator married his victim in what was called "Rehabilitating Marriage"

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rkG1 TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany