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TIL the cross-dressing character “Corporal Klinger” on MAS*H was inspired by the ‘50s/'60s counterculture comedian Lenny Bruce who was dishonorably discharged from the Navy during WWII for wearing a woman’s uniform and claiming homosexual tendencies

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