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TIL Norway had a Legal purge after WW2 against anyone deemed to have collaborated with the Germans during the war

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166dr TIL Jim Henson was an early pioneer in digital sets and computer-created puppets.
NXEbe TIL that Klaus Voormann, who designed the iconic album cover for The Beatles "Revolver", also played bass on "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon, including the famous intro.
xVoY1 TIL that racial segregation in the American South didn't begin right after the Civil War; it was imposed in the 1890s when rich whites in the South feared the Populist movement bringing poor whites and blacks together. Segregation literally stopped the two sides from legally gathering together.
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b9Bxa TIL Nazi spies tried infiltrating Russia in WW2 using fake passports; the passports were recognized as fraud because Russian passports use iron staples that stain the pages with rust, while Nazis used steel. During the Cold War, American spies made the same mistake