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TIL after WWII, the Allies conducted a massive ‘ethnic cleansing’ of German-speaking citizens from certain areas, resulting in app. 500,000 civilian deaths., some as slave laborers in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, which were kept in operation.

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nWW9o TIL of Makibefo, a 1999 film adaptation of Macbeth directed by British director Alexander Abela, was filmed in Madagascar with just 1 technical assistant, had a cast consisted of all Antandroy people, an indigenous people of Madagascar, most of whom had never seen a movie and improvised everything.
D1Mxj TIL in 1977, two American colleges, Carleton College and St. Olaf College, members of NCAA's Division III conference, attempted to play an American football game using purely metric measurements
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