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TIL there are shackles at the feet of Lady Liberty

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D1PGY TIL 40% of all Vietnamese people have the last name Nguyen.
kBmd TIL during world war 2, African American GI’s experienced less racism from Nazi German’s than they did from their own non-African American GI’s.
M7mPV TIL Ving Rhames earned $7.7 million for roughly 39 seconds of screen time in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), which makes him the highest-paid actor for the smallest amount of screen time. He had just two days of work on set.
oRm8r TIL Scarface (1983) was not only shunned by the Oscars, but actually received a Razzie nomination for Worst Director.
W7kDA TIL there's a fake American Wild West town in England, called Laredo, built by re-enactors, who bring it to life every other weekend.