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TIL of Chief Red Cloud, a Native American Nazi sympathizer. He praised Adolf Hitler as a spiritual brother and painted a vision of a coming war when white Christians and American Indians would unite to defeat the Jews.

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LEYd TIL elephants often bury dead or sleeping humans or aid them when they are hurt
0PoN TIL that by the time Mozart was 28, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose his masterpieces.
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