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TIL that townfolk from a small German town duped over 200 neo-Nazis by tricking them into a walkathon that raised over $12,000 for an anti-Nazi charity.

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0dA55 TIL famed author Virginia Woolf, and several others, once donned blackface as part of a scheme to get a free tour of a British warship.
VM7X0 TIL Lobert is the founder of Hookers for Jesus, an international, Christian faith-based nonprofit organization that addresses prostitution, sex trafficking, and sexual violence and exploitation. In 2008, a safe house program was established in the Las Vegas area for victims.
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