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TIL:Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”

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nNr7 TIL that when Zach Braff originally appeared on MTV’s “Punk’d,” he actually punched Ryan Pinkston in the stomach, but the fight was edited out of the footage; in Braff’s own words, “They edited it out, because apparently you’re not supposed to punch people on Punk’d.”
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grWYy TIL in 1988, the experimental group Negativland put out a press release claiming their tour was cancelled due to their music being linked with David Brom's axe murder of his family. In reality, the cancellation was due to lack of funds. This did not, however, stop news reporters taking up the story.