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TIL that a majority of confederate monuments were erected decades after the South lost the Civil War

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N7Oje TIL the first "mooning incident" resulted in the deaths of 10,000 Jews.
6EmNl TIL that "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" considered other names before settling on the one they did, among them "Arthur Megapode’s Cheap Show", "Owl Stretching Time", "Vaseline Parade" and "A Clump of Plinths"
MQ5A TIL there is a Polish reddit. Not subreddit, but an entire reddit.
w6V6 TIL that in 2012, IBM created a short film titled, “A Boy And His Atom,” using stop-motion of individual Carbon atoms magnified at over 100,000,000 times. Guinness World Records has verified it as “The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.”
O0EY TIL that only apes, elephants, and some dolphins, whales, and birds can pass the mirror self-awareness test