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TIL that after the experience of playing Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise established a charitable foundation to help disabled veterans and their families

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oYZK TIL that in Soviet Russia, rebellious teenagers who mimicked the Beatles’ hair were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations
LQo9Z TIL that first person to perform cardiac catheterization did so on himself. He then walked downstairs to the radiology department to take an x-ray to prove that the procedure was not fatal. Despite his success, he was fired and later became a Nazi. However, he eventually won the Nobel Prize.
QNN0E TIL that the finish military had a swastika as their logo up to 2020 when pressure made them reconsider the logo
KOP9 TIL that the Romans had the same goddess for their sewage system as for protecting sexual intercourse in marriage
E1YEo TIL during WWII, the US extracted accused Nazis from Latin America and put them in internment camps. But most were innocent, and some were actually Jews who had fled the Holocaust. They were all interned together, Jews trapped in American camps with Nazis who would harass and beat them.