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TIL that the “loose lips sink ships” propaganda campaign in WWII was not really designed to keep shipping information from German agents but rather to keep American morale up by not communicating how many US ships were being sunk by Germany

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neKLr TIL that Curly from the Three Stooges would often forget his lines and when that happened would retort to improvising noises which is how we got the phrase NYUK, NYUK, NYUK
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KYw89 TIL about 11 year old Herman Lehmann, the son of German immigrants, who was captured by the Apaches in central Texas and lived with them for 6 years. He later went on to kill an Apache medicine man to avenge the death of his chief and master and took asylum with the Comanches.
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