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TIL Rambo was the first R-Rated film to be made into children’s animated tv show. The show did not reference Vietnam, POWs or Rambo’s experiences in the films.

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JYklV TIL that between 1945 and the early 1990s, approximately 40,000 Brutalist, alien-looking sculptures called Spomeniks were built all over Yugoslavia. Intended as World War II memorials, some are the size of a 15-story building.
nOXo TIL that there is an African Union which aims to have a currency union similar to the Euro. One suggested name for this currency union is the “Afro.”
6EojQ TIL Adolf Hitler ordered his paintings to be ordered and Destroyed at the start of the Second World War. After the war many of the surviving paintings were confiscated by the US Army, and have not been seen by the public since.
d8EAZ TIL if you are on most airlines (not all) and hear an announcement referencing "Jim Wilson", it's because there's a dead body on the plane
W19 TIL in WWII, both Allied and Axis forces, specifically pilots, were known to be methamphetamine users, so much so that it was nicknamed “Pilot’s Salt”.