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TIL Japan and Poland were allies during World War II

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ONge TIL that female gladiators (gladiatrices) existed during the Roman Empire.
4XY7o TIL despite being the most famous member of Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks didn’t join until 8 years after the it was founded & was only invited because her boyfriend/songwriting partner Lindsey Buckingham refused to become the new guitarist unless they brought her onboard as a “package deal”
nWVMb TIL Steven Spielberg was not present for the shooting of the final scene in Jaws because he thought the film crew was going to throw him in the water once the shoot ended. Since then, it has become a tradition for him to be absent when the final scene of one of his films is being shot.
0wnGy TIL Scrooge's famous cry for the poor to die and thereby 'decrease the surplus population' was most likely a reference to Thomas Malthus who had written a generation before about the economic dangers of a lack of war, plague and famine.
4k1NX TIL that no Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction (WMD) where found in Iraq, yet 33% of Fox viewers believed WMDs were found and were the justification for the invasion of Iraq post-911.