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TIL Caucasia is a real place, not just a joke my friends and I make about white people.

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9Wdp TIL the guy who wrote and directed the movies “Jeepers Creepers” and “Jeepers Creepers 2” is a convicted sex offender for video taping and raping a 12 year old boy. 10 years after he got out of prison he was given 27 million to make these two movies.
OGlya TIL Melpomene and Thalia are the muses of comedy and tragedy. Their faces are the two depicted in the drama masks.
x6aXD TIL that on 15th August 1939, two weeks before the outbreak of Ww2, the luftwaffe lost 13 Ju-87 Stuka in a minute. The incident is know as "Nuehammer Stuka Disaster".
awP6L TIL in 1956 the Welsh village of Capel Celyn, including its two cemeteries were submerged to form a dam for Liverpool’s drinking. The majority of bodies were not removed.
grEv8 TIL that the resident cat at 10 Downing Street is called the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. The cats were found to be subject to partisanship in a study - the cat was liked more when voters were told that the ownership of the cat matches their political compass.