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TIL of the Iron Front, a democratic paramilitary group that opposed the Nazis in the early 1930s, and who’s flag was designed to cross out the Swastika if superimposed on a Nazi flag.

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8koV TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times
P1WoO TIL in the 19th and early 20th centuries the British army maintained a network of "lock hospitals" established to manage the spread of STDs around colonial military installations due to the prevalence of venereal diseases amongst British troops. India had lock hospitals on the larger bases.
a8E60 TIL the Philippines are so named after the Spanish King Philip II, and the inhabitants are called ‘Filipino’ due to the native spelling of his name, being ‘Felipe’.
grmW8 TIL there are more than 72,100 Americans still missing from World War II.
l71Y1 TIL that muscles, which we eat, start out as parasites