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TIL Stargate was the first film to have an official dedicated website, in 1994

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8e79G TIL Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few major European cities with a Catholic Church, synagogue, mosque and Eastern Orthodox church in the same neighborhood
nJAB TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back
R5K1w TIL about the 1st Special Service Force, aka the “Devil’s Brigade” – a US-Canada joint unit composed during WWII and the first modern special forces. They fought and died together during the most dangerous allied deployments of WWII, and suffered a casualty rate of up to 77%.
yVGpX TIL Despite being located above the Arctic Circle, the Norwegian municipality of Tromso only has a record low temperature of -18.4°C (−1.1°F) Identical to the record low temperature in the subtropical US state of Florida
vaPL TIL that in August and September of 2006, Danger Mouse collaborated with British graffiti artist Banksy to replace 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s album “Paris” in English music stores with altered album artwork and a 40 minute instrumental song containing various statements she had made.