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TIL an executioner in the 1500’s left a diary detailing all 361 executions he performed in his lifetime

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ReO4 TIL that during production of the film “Snakes on a Plane” the name was changed to “Pacific Air Flight 121”. Samuel L. Jackson, the lead character, successfully requested the title be changed back, saying, “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.”
XEnyQ TIL: Raccoons are not native to Germany. They were brought there in the 1920s for their pelts. During World War II, an Allied bomb hit a raccoon farm wall, allowing a dozen or so to escape. Today, German cities are being overrun by millions of raccoons!
VMZLQ TIL about Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbia city in what is now the United States. Its pyramids and earthen mounds stood near present-day East St. Louis, IL. Around the year 1050, it had 30,000 people, making it larger than London or Paris at the time. It was abandoned by 1400.
b68ZN TIL Pizza Hut's Big New Yorker, one of their largest pizzas, was invented and launched by former president of Nintendo Reggie Fils-Aimé
BgXaK TIL that people used to live in tree trunks