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TIL Nicaragua once invaded Costa Rica because of a Google Maps Error

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vPbeB TIL The actress that played Carol Anne in all 3 Poltergeist movies died at the age of 12 of a heart attack.
awMxo TIL that there is an official Goonies Day every year on June 7 in Astoria, Oregon. The majority of the film Goonies was filmed in Astoria and June 7th is the day the movie was released in 1985.
BGPk TIL that when a squirrel feels that it is being watched, it may deceptively pretend to bury an object and then hide the object in its mouth.
ZpyQQ TIL in 1098 (First Crusade), crusaders promised the Muslim population of Ma’arra safe conduct if they surrendered. The Muslims surrendered, then the crusaders immediately began to massacre almost the entire population of 20,000. The crusaders then resorted to cannibalism, eating the Muslims.
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