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TIL a secret society, the "Knights of the Golden Circle," plotted for the US to annex and enslave Central America & the Caribbean in order to create a massive Slave State empire. The US even had real opportunities to annex more of Mexico, which Northern abolitionists blocked to prevent such plans.

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PwVL TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about a giant, firebreathing lizard which was made into a 1953 film. This film inspired a Japanese producer to make Godzilla in 1954
wLgY TIL in 1985, the Soviet Union compiled a secret list of 38 “ideologically harmful” western bands, which included Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Depeche Mode, and the Village People.
e0oy4 TIL the NORAD set for the movie War Games was at the time time most expensive movie set ever built. It was more advanced than the real NORAD, which was still using technology from the 50s.
XEd0P TIL of baby boxes - heated boxes in south Seoul for parents to anonymously leave their abandoned new-born children inside. Most who abandon their babies are mothers who are unwed or victims of sexual violence. These baby boxes have saved thousands of abandoned babies since 2009.
4Xm5w TIL that sending a cruel leader with a group of incompetent men on a dangerous, nearly impossible mission, in the hope they would not return, was likely the main reason for the spanish expedition to find "El Dorado" in 1560.