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TIL it is still illegal to join a Communist Party in the USA

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MeyjA TIL about the Nuremberg Chronicle, an ambitious history of the world published in 1493, with over 300 pages and 2,000 illustrations. Six blank pages are reserved at the end to record events from 1493 to Judgment Day.
wnbE TIL that a woman attempted to sue Disneyland for claimed humiliation and the gain of 50 pounds among other things, claiming she was fondled by one of the Three Little Pigs in “It’s a Small World” charges were dropped when it was brought up that the costume had stiff, inoperable arms.
QNDEa TIL that a film version of "It Can't Happen Here" was passed on for being "anti-facist".
4ka6g TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.
XEQKj TIL in Canada radio stations dedicated program blocks in off-peak hours to Canadian music. These program blocks became known as "beaver hours"