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TIL the 1972 film The Devils was so contreversial that it was banned in Finland for over 40 years until 2011

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jNRgp TIL After J.D Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, served in World War Two, he was hospitalized with combat stress reaction for a few weeks. He later told his daughter "You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."
69EmX TIL of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin. A German football club who, after the only other team in Berlin were kicked out the league got an unexpected promotion to the top league. The German FA wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons. They remain the worst team in Bundesliga history.
b94wE TIL about musician Gaelynn Lea ,winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert competition, who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic condition that causes complications in the development of bones and limbs.
8aZRK TIL Synchronized swimming is one of the world's worst sports for concussions--one coach estimated that 100% of his synchronized swimmers have sustained a concussion at some point during their career
6EnY7 TIL about the 'Harlem Hellfighters' WW1's African-American regiment who were the first Allied unit to reach the banks of the river Rhine in November 1918