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TIL of the existence of the English speech contraction “there’re”.

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d8P69 TIL that Darth Vader’s name was partially inspired by one of George Lucas’ high school classmates, Gary Vader.
XEgLX TIL Sebastiane - a movie about life and death of Saint Sebastian in Roman times, was the first and only erotic movie that has dialogue entirely in Latin
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