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Jul 01, 2020

TIL The first attempt to make an anti-Nazi film in America was Herman J Mankiewicz's "The Mad Dog of Europe" in 1933. The film floundered in early production and was ultimately never produced because no studio would risk being banned in Germany.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL: Two teenagers girls seduced and hunted Nazi's like "Dexter"

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Feb 16, 2020

TIL about Sgt. Siwash, the beer drinking duck who fought with the Marines in WWII, and received citations for battling a Japanese rooster. Siwash passed away in 1954 due to liver disease and their wake was held in a Chicago taxidermists shop.

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Dec 10, 2019

TIL that Stan Lee, Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra and William Saroyan all served as “playwright” in World War 2, a title only given to 9 serviceman.

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Jun 22, 2019

TIL With one working arm, numerous facial wounds, and 8 of his crew dead or critically wounded, B-17 Pilot Lt. William R Lawley managed to fly his crippled plane one-handed all the way back to England, where he made a miraculous landing that saved the lives of all surviving crew members

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Jun 07, 2019

TIL one typo lead to the hire of a Geoffrey Tandy, a seaweed expert (cryptogamist) instead of a codebreaker (cryptogramist) during WW2, but the help of the seaweed expert accelerated the end of the war by 2 to 4 yrs saving millions of lives in the process

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Jun 06, 2019

TIL in WWII, Italian doctors made up a disease to save Jews from the Nazis. "Syndrome K" was said to be a deadly, highly contagious, disfiguring disease and the doctors saved at least 20 Jews by quarantining them.

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