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TIL Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, showed no interest in politics, except in one notable episode. Learning that women's cosmetics and luxuries were to be banned owing to Germany's total war, she came to Hitler in 'high indignation,' leading to a halt in production without an outright ban.

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x61ZB TIL about the confidence woman Sarah Wilson, who was convicted in England and sentenced to transportation and slavery in the American colonies; where she escaped and pretended to be the sister to the Queen of England, fooling many of the southern elite.
gA44 TIL the original pledge of allegiance was completely secular. It was only in 1954, 12 years after its formal adoption, that a group of right-wing religious elements pushed for the phrase “under God” to be added, claiming it was “definitive factor in the American way of life.”
ZpLGv TIL that a bedroom of a fallen soldier in WWI is currently a de facto museum which are intended to last for 500 years
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MeROB TIL the 1994 film "Clerks" had an extended, but a much darker ending, in which Dante Hicks was murdered by a robber who then proceeded to take the money from the cash register. Miramax reacted negatively and ordered writer-director Kevin Smith to delete that ending completely.