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Today I Learned Australia is actually an American company

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Oo0l4 TIL A battalion of Scottish troops who went to battle in kilts was given the nickname "The Ladies from Hell" by the German troops they fought against in World War One.
MDY8 TIL Pocahontas died when she was only 21/22 and was never romantically involved with John Smith as Hollywood would have you believe
69NXm TIL the seemingly out of place lyric in Paul Simon's 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' about 'she makes the sign of the teaspoon, he makes the sign of the wave' is actually a reference to South African taxi hand signals, indicating going to a rich district and a poor district, respectively.
VMgp4 TIL when Francis Ford Coppola asked Al Pacino if he would star in ‘Apocalypse Now,’ Pacino replied, “I know what this is going to be like. You're going to be up there in a helicopter telling me what to do, and I'm gonna be down in a swamp for five months." The shoot actually lasted sixteen months.
mxYNE TIL that the fig tree is pollinated by the fig wasp which then dies inside the fruit. The offspring then mate inside and the females escape to pollinate the next fig.