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TIL that the Devil's Tower KOA campground, the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind is screened every night.

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Pojg TIL that Winston Churchill was a major proponent of the Eugenics movement, and supported mass sterilisation
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xVl4D TIL the Nazis took over a high-end Berlin brothel commonly used by prominent Germans and foreign dignitaries, replaced all the prostitutes with spies, and continued business until a British air raid demolished the building in 1942
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