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TIL the Israeli intelligence agency (MOSSAD) ran a high end diving resort in Sudan for years as a cover to smuggling Jewish Ethiopians back to Israel.

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EE4V TIL in Predator 2, the pistol that Danny Glover receives was meant to be a nod to a future movie where the predator would fight pirates…
xvZg TIL that Thor’s hammer was intended to have a much longer handle and be wielded two-handed. While it was being forged, Loki interrupted the dwarf manning the bellows, resulting in the hammer’s defect.
v1br4 TIlL The 8th Preident of America, Martin Van Buren was married to a Hoes. Hannah Hoes.
vPGv4 TIL about Pierre Billotte, commander of the Eure. He, along with his crew, defeated 13 tanks and two enemy guns in a single day. The Eure was hit 140 times by tank and weapons fire
M71RK TIL about the Kalakuta Republic, which was a communal compound in Lagos, Nigeria owned by nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. It was later destroyed by the Nigerian Military in 1977