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TIL that Inside Out 2 is the only film inside the top 10 highest grossing films of all time that has a runtime of under 2 hours. It's total runtime is 1 hour an...

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TIL that Ireland’s navy reserve is only 77 people.

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TIL that according to legend Emperor Alexander I of Russia might have faked his own death to live as a hermit in Siberia, said hermit later became canonized as ...

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TIL a Japanese veterinarian officer by the name of Hiroshi Yamasaki deserted the army after witnessing the Rape of Nanking. He then went on to dedicate the rest...

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TIL that a young woman named Victoria von Hohenlohe-Langenburg is currently the most titled aristocrat in the world. She holds 43 officially recognized titles. ...

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TIL that raccoon meat was once a staple at American Thanksgiving dinner tables and is still sold in places like St Louis. Raccoon reportedly tastes like "a comb...

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TIL Someone impersonating President Truman called the president of Haiti to sway a vote. Truman did not learn who it was and the impersonator is unknown to this...

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TIL there is still an unidentified witness to the Kennedy Assassination known as the “Babushka Lady”. It is believed she captured the assassination with her own...

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TIL that helium was discovered on the Sun, long before it was ever found on Earth.

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TIL the Plymouth Pilgrims, a few years after celebrating the First Thanksgiving, sent armed men to arrest the leader of a nearby settlement who had set up a may...

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TIL that in 2008, the Tokyo Broadcasting System filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against ABC, claiming that the game show Wipeout was "a blatant copycat" ...

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TIL about Jan Jansz de Weltevree, the first Dutch sailor that arrived to Korea, where he married, passed the civil service examinations and became a government ...

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TIL that after the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the worst industrial accident in history, the American CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, fled India and was declar...

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TIL In 1653, Dutch sailor Hendrick Hamel and 35 crewmates shipwrecked off the coast of Joseon (modern-day Korea). Due to Joseon's isolationist policy, they were...

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TIL about Wang Mang, a Confucian scholar from the 1st-century who overthrew the Han Dynasty in a coup and declared himself Emperor of China. He abolished slaver...

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TIL that a man who survived an avalanche later found that Sudoku was the only thing that would trigger his epileptic seizures, because oxygen loss had damaged t...

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TIL that Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days during December 1926, and even today, the reasoning and circumstances of her vanishing are a mystery.

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TIL that the Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons was permanently pulled from circulation in 2019 after almost 30 years on air

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TIL filmmaker Peter Jackson had planned to produce a film adaptation of “Halo” in the 2000’s but it fell through due to lack of financing. Instead Jackson, alon...

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TIL that when the British evacuated New York in 1783, they nailed the Union Flag to a greased flagpole to stop Americans raising their own. For over a century N...

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