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TIL that a film version of "It Can't Happen Here" was passed on for being "anti-facist".

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bkep TIL Ozzy Osbourne’s entire genome was once analyzed by scientists to determine how his body survived decades of drug abuse.
NXrjN TIL Whacking Day, a yearly event depicted in The Simpsons where the townspeople kill snakes, was a real event in Eastchester, New York from 1665 onwards. Records stated: "That one day every spring be chosen for the destroying of rattle snakes."
xVBJ0 TIL In 1953, the Canadian government relocated some of the Inuit in Northern Quebec up north to Resolute and Grise Fiord. The relocation has been described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving native people and enable them to continue a subsistence lifestyle
9wKQ TIL The Dalai Lama eats meat every other day, and once said “I’m a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.