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TIL the song Entrance of the Gladiators was included as a military march in the repertoire of pieces imposed by the SS on prisoners' orchestras to accompany the departures and returns of the work Kommandos in Nazis concentration camps. Today it’s used to signify clowns.

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epKj5 TIL there is an ancient Corinthian helmet in the Museum of Korea. Originally gifted to marathoner Son Gi-Jeong for winning the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, he did not receive it until 1986. Son then donated it to the museum. It is Korea's only designated Western "National Treasure"
R7na TIL that in October of 1988 a group of fundamentalist christians armed with molotov cocktails staged an attack on a Parisian screening of the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ, Injuring 13 moviegoers
Oo7P4 TIL A way Switzerland kept itself from being invaded is by booby-trapping and blowing up all it's border linkages, and bridges making it merely impossible for the Nazis to invade during WW2.
QJ9Rk TIL JohnJay, one of the most influential Founding Fathers called upon the Constitutional Convention to give consideration to the manumission of slaves and the protection of freed blacks, but evidently on the advice of Hamilton, abstained from formally petitioning Congress.
0OB1 TIL that Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws.