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TIL: Kevin Bacon has been in a working band with his brother Michael since 1995.

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loDKA TIL The Roman legion of the "Legio IX Hispana", stationed in Britannia, mysteriously disappeared from surviving Roman records after around AD 120. There are no accounts on the disapperance, nor there has been any clear consensus on the matter.
5VyYB TIL about the Power of Women artistic and literary Practice in the Renaissance showing "heroic or wise men dominated by women", presenting "an admonitory and often humorous inversion of the male-dominated sexual hierarchy" with Women sitting on top of Men usually
X0npD TIL about Nasir Geblli, a genius Iranian-American programmer for Final Fantasy I-III. His accomplishments include the airship, the first RPG mini game, and many more
xVKKb TIL that after H. P. Lovecraft's grandmother died when he was five years old, his mother and aunts began wearing black dresses around the house to mourn her. These "terrified" Lovecraft, and he began to have nightmares about them, which also involved some of the creatures he would later write about.
xaOo TIL in the scene in Inglorious Bastards where Dianne Kruger is being strangled it was actually Quentin Tarantino choking her out because he thinks that fake strangling never looks real in movies.