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TIL Romani people in Turkey

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nWNxY TIL there was a satirical magazine in Nazi Germany known as "Die Brennessel" (Stinging Nettle) which used humor to promote Nazism and antisemitism. Originally the best-selling satirical magazine in the country, it folded in 1938 after failing to entertain it's readers.
EgkW0 TIL internet meme stars from the 2000s (Numa Numa, Hide Yo Wife, Leeroy Jenkins, and more) met and created a trailer for a film called "The Chronicles of Rick Roll" (2016).
l7Er TIL that an East Germany film studio made several successful “Westerns”. The heroes were not cowboys but Native Americans.
kJvB5 TIL the 145m year old araucaria araucana (or monkey puzzle tree) has survived mass extinctions and ice ages, but is currently endangered
woAmJ TIL about the Streisand effect, phenomenon in which an attempt to censor, hide, or otherwise draw attention away from something only serves to attract more attention to it.