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TIL that The Three Stooges were the first to release a Hitler film parody. "You Natzy Spy!" (1940) was released months before Chaplin's "The Great Dictator".

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eWkD TIL In the Korean War, US mortar teams accidentally ordered hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls instead of rounds because the US military sometimes used “tootsie rolls” as code for mortar rounds
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