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TIL some chapters of the NAACP boycotted the movie "The Color Purple" in 1985 because they felt it portrayed Black men in a negative light

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n0Y TIL that Eric Cartman’s (from South Park) stuffed animal and pal, Clyde Frog, actually had his own show in the 1970’s designed to help kids raise their self esteem.
Nnb1 TIL When the Kurds revolted against British rule in the 1920’s, Winston Churchill said; “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.” Decades later, Saddam Hussein did what Churchill advocated (Poison Gas Attack on Halabja, 1988).
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JYJmB TIL that while Australia and New Zealand commemorates ANZAC Day, each year on 25 April Italy commemorates the end of Nazi occupation during World War II and the victory of the Resistance in Italy