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TIL Brazil has a thriving Southern Confederate ex-pat community that hold festivals every April

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OMZa TIL Jamaica is seen as “the most homophobic place on Earth”. Homosexual men face ten years imprisonment, and cases of beatings and murder directed at the LGBT population are extremely commonplace.
x6Vgg TIL Before Black Beard went into battle he lit fuses under his hat to scare his opponents
KMb6 TIL J. R.R. Tolkien was an Anarchist.
7rP1x TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".
Wk6bY TIL John Krasinski auditioned to be Captain America, but after putting on the costume said “I’m not Captain America”