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TIL Godzilla spends around 8 minutes in the movie created for him in 2014

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b90W9 TIL: Medieval scribes would frequently scribble complaints in the margins of books as they copied them, as their work was so tedious. Recorded complaints range from “As the harbor is welcome to the sailor, so is the last line to the scribe.”, to “Oh, my hand.” and, "A curse on thee, O pen!"
xV7M7 TIL Alaric, who became King of the Visigoths and sacked Rome in 410 CE, was conscripted as a Roman soldier earlier in his life. While fighting in the Alpine passes, he likely learned the weaknesses of Rome's natural defenses.
0dJPL TIL INTERLINGUA is an auxiliary language that every Romance language (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian) speaker can easily understand without ever studying, thanks to these languages' common Latin roots.
LkNyd TIL After consuming brewery waste, ‘drunk’ seagulls ‘stinking of alcohol’ have had to be rescued all along the south coast of England.
5YQWp TIL that the word robot originates from the Czech word "robotnik" which means "slave".