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TIL Simon Bolivar is considered a founding father of Columbia and Venezuela, not just Bolivia.

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Lk7EZ TIL that the country with the tallest average height is Bosnia and Herzegovina (183.9 cm/6' 0" for men, 171.8 cm/5' 7" for women), and the countries with the shortest average height are Indonesia for men (158.0 cm/5' 2") and Bolivia for women (142.2 cm/4' 8")
lLYN TIL: After the murder of a director William Taylor, a reporter tried to get a confession out of Taylor’s black valet. Believing that blacks were afraid of ghosts, she lured the valet to a cemetery where a man covered in a bed sheet appeared pretending to be a ghost. The valet then laughed at them.
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KeZE TIL that penny dreadfuls, pulp novels from the 1800s, were once blamed for the criminal behavior of young men in the same way that video games are blamed today.
Me0Da TIL Batman the animated series issued a standing order to the animation department that all backgrounds be painted using light colors on black paper (as opposed to the industry standard of dark colors on white paper)