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TIL about Matt Kennedy Gould. He was the only real person in a 1990's Big Brother type reality show called The Joe Schmo Show. The rest of the cast were all actors and actresses.

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YjKW TIL George Lucas ‘ideally would love not to see any footage [of the newest Star Wars film: The Force Awakens] until he walks into the theater next December. He has never been able to be surprised by a Star Wars film before and he said he was looking forward to it.’
nWEBb TIL the "Aztecs" never referred to themselves as that. They called themselves the Mexica (Me-SHEE-ka). The modern use of "Aztec" was coined by a Prussian Scholar in 1810, and derives from a term meaning "people from Aztlan", a mythical place of origin for several ethnic groups in central Mexico.
x6jOD TIL during an exploration around Peru, in 1940 pilots spotted an isolated hamlet in the jungle. The village was founded by Carlos Fitzcarrald around 1890: and was inhabited by rubber tappers who were apart of his colonizing effort, before the end of the rubber boom isolated them. Story in comments.
d89W8 TIL that according to legend that many used to believe was fact, the founder and first King of Britain was Brutus of Troy, a descendant of a hero from the Trojan War, and he also founded Troia Nova or New Troy in what is today London. He was also supposedly the ancestor of King Arthur.
6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.