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TIL The Original Rudolph & Santa Puppets from 1964 were sold at auction for $368K to an anonymous bidder who subsequently donated them to the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts Museum

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RJA4 TIL in 1933 America’s most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representatives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him in a coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government.
GAW04 TIL that the US military was concerned about the potential backlash from Catholics if Rome was bombed during WWII.
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