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TIL In 2003, a panel of prominent US experts decried Americans’ ignorance of outside world and argued that Americans’ reluctance to study foreign civilizations could eventually become a threat to national security.

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M8mW TIL Gladiator 2 was supposed to be about Maximus being revived by the Gods and is given the quest to murder Jesus Christ and his followers in order to save the Gods who are in heaven. No studio wanted to take on the project.
75Qr TIL in 2007, a new parking garage in Germany ended up with two parking bays that had a peculiar shape and required a complicated parking maneuver in order to park there. Officials declared them Men’s Parking Spaces to discourage unskilled drivers from attempting the maneuver.
awZlA At least half of the oxygen produced on Earth comes from the ocean, mostly from tiny photosynthesizing plankton. But marine life also uses roughly the same amount of oxygen to breathe, for cellular respiration, and in the decomposition process.
eV0E TIL that Apple is not the worlds most valuable company. Saudi Aramco, a private company is worth at least double Apple’s amount, at least $1.2 Trillion
GYLG7 TIL the real "Last Samurai" was not American, but French. Here's the story of Jules Brunet