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TIL Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks watch a lot of movies together, but only movies that contain the phrase “secure the perimeter.”

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KOwXE TIL that there is an underground town in the Australian outback called Coober Pedy. Half of its population live below ground to escape the area's hellish temperatures.
jxbN TIL that the English county of Sussex was divided into Rapes.
p8r7N TIL Nowadays a slave costs about $90 on average worldwide compared to $40,000 in 1850, an average cost in the American South.
QNgmM TIL in 1989, the US pursued Panama dictator Manuel Noriega and tried to make him surrender by loudly playing hit songs such as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Panama," and "Never Gonna Give You Up" in front of the embassy Noriega was staying in.
YYJr TIL Pablo Escobar burned $2 million to keep his daughter warm.