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TIL: Adolf Hitler "famously hated red lipstick," Felder said. In Allied countries, wearing it became a sign of patriotism and a statement against facism.

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WkDP4 TIL that Edd Kalehoff, the original composer of "The Price is Right" theme song, was pressured into giving his ASCAP credit to another person and as a result has lost out on millions in royalties over the years.
mxGap TIL Creator of Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, is forbidden to go to work with a bicycle because his safety is too valuable
LbO9 TIL that During WWII, two polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews from the Holocaust by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis from entering their town.
R57g7 TIL about The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law - an Austro-Hungarian satire party whose platform included mandatory alcoholism and reintroducing the Inquisition
l7NaV Til Vitaly Kaloyev stabbed air traffic controller Peter Nielsen to death in 2004 in an act of revenge for the midair collision in 2002 of two planes that killed 71 people. Kaloyev's entire family died in the crash. He served only four years in prison and was treated lIke a hero by his countrymen.