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TIL that during WWII, the Germans had official brothels for their soldiers and sailors.

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nXgo TIL-Mel Blanc would visit a local Los Angeles hospital to visit children in the burn center and do cartoon voices at their bedside.
x61PD TIL that during an NHL game between Toronto and Carolina in 2018, both of Carolina's goalies got injured so they had to put in a 42 year old maintenance worker from the rink in net. They won the game.
nNnd TIL Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters.
yVApp TIL John Hughes chose to live in Chicago (where all his movies were set) rather than Hollywood or NYC because he preferred living among normal folks. "[In LA], you spend too much time with other people in the business and you trade ideas back and forth and it all sort of comes out looking the same."
LkgQ9 TIL in 2017 the Pentagon released videos and information of a UFO encounter through a FOIA request.