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TIL that after betraying their mission and informing the FBI about Nazi agents on U.S. soil, the two men who saved America from Nazi infiltration were greeted with life imprisonment, threat of execution, and deportation.

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kaD5 TIL that despite making billions a year from TV rights and local incentives, the NFL is a non-profit organization and doesn’t pay a penny in taxes
9YXyD TIL NASA has a public access TV channel. When not showing live news coverage, NASA TV airs a variety of programming. Viewers may see views of the Earth from the International Space Station; replays of mission operations or news conferences; or episodes of produced programs
bYgE TIL in almost every adaptation of Dora the Explorer outside the US and UK, Dora teaches English, not Spanish.
Y50W TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.
wLVx6 TIL that, in order to evade taxes, "Hollywood accounting" is so egregious that the Lord of the Rings trilogy "made horrendous losses and no profit at all"