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TIL in In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism

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oRBr TIL that the pied piper was a legend used to explain the actual disappearance of hundreds of children.
VMLKm TIL Hugh Jackman buys lotto tickets every Friday for the entire crew while filming a movie. It's a tradition he started 2 months into filming his first American film when he was embarrassed he didn't know the names of half the crew members.
EWdP TIL that during the first week of the first Star Wars: Episode I trailer’s release, many theatres reported up to 75% of their audiences paying full price for a movie, then walking out after the Star Wars: Episode I trailer was shown.
y6m8 TIL the US government killed an estimated 10,000 people by intentionally poisoning alcohol during prohibition
Y7nlA TIL the tiny nation of Vanuatu has the world's highest linguistic density per capita. Its population of 300,000 speak 138 indigenous Oceanic languages. That's not counting the languages brought in by new migrants.