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TIL that a hanging Munchkin on The Wizard of Oz set is a myth

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VMEoQ TIL Nintendo bought the rights to two Mario porn parodies in order to halt their distribution.
xeyD TIL in 1987 a lone Chilean Flamingo named Pink Floyd escaped from a zoo in Salt Lake City and lived alone in the wild in Utah on the Great Salt Lake, surviving off brine shrimp. He was last seen in 2005, but others have claimed they’ve spotted him since.
oBOZR TIL of Operation Bloodstone, a CIA project to recruit former Nazis and collaborators to conduct "psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, [...] assassination, target capture and rescue". Many hired agents were high ranking Nazis, some of which had committed crimes against humanity.
dZmd TIL that the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin contains an anti-graffiti chemical - which turned out to be manufactured by the same company that made the Zyklonn B gas used in concentration camp gas chambers during World War 2.
eWen TIL one of the torture methods used in gulags was putting the prisoner in a dark box filled with thousands of bedbugs.