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TIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgust

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9e1r TIL: US energy subsidies for the fossil fuel companies cost the US taxpayers 5.3 Trillion dollars, or 6.5% of total Global GDP.
4G9b TIL that black panthers are just the melanistic (opposite of albinism) color variant of leopards and jaguars and not an independent species
7rGrx TIL there is a city in New Mexico called "Truth or Consequences", which got its name after a radio show that turned 10 years old said it would air its anniversary program from the first city that renamed itself after the show
m5Mo TIL that the Milky Way is currently in the middle of a absorbing another smaller galaxy, the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy.
mx8Gy TIL in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. the United States Supreme Court ruled Hollywood's Big Five could no longer own movie theaters, thus breaking up their oligopoly. Before its ruling, Hollywood studios controlled the filming, producing, printing and distribution of their movies.