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TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch

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nZ7b TIL Dogfish Head brewery produces an “ancient ale,” the recipe for which is based on chemicals and pollen found on a 3,500 year-old Danish drinking vessel.
neB5W TIL that Nazis ordered the Minsk Ghetto to turn over a Jewish resistance leader, Hersh Smolar, hiding in a hospital. They handed over a bloody passport and said he'd been killed in a roundup shooting. The Nazis fell for it. Smolar survived the war.
ANXb7 TIL that despite is Germanic name, Auschwitz was not only located in Poland, but is a former Polish Army barracks
4Plo TIL There’s a 5000 year old undergorund city in Turkey the size of 16 football fields
5EYB TIL 75% of all Silent Films Have Been Lost