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TIL Mel Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge. When the Nazis played their propaganda over loudspeakers, he responded by setting up his own sound system and playing music by Jewish singer Al Jolson.

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6EZnw Man-made snow will be almost entirely used for the Beijing Winter Olympics, beginning on February 4.
gVa9 TIL that Pope John XII either died during sex with a married woman or was beaten to death by her husband, among many other scandalous acts he performed (affairs, toasting to the devil, ordaining a ten-year-old boys as a bishop, etc., etc., etc.).
a6wb TIL that Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” has spent more than 800 weeks in the Billboard 200 since its release.
W0VA TIL that America is the only developed country on earth where the current generation is less educated than the previous generation
e0ngk TIL the Beanie Baby Craze was sparked by a group of soccer moms in Chicago. One would be responsible for creating the price guides which she later admitted she made the prices up.