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TIL a Dutch businessman bought an entire Hungarian village called Bedepuszta to repurpose it as a retreat

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Qe8e TIL the first animal ejected from a supersonic aircraft was not a monkey or a dog, but a BEAR
8a7jb TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film," calling the dialog "lamentable." An autograph seeker told him he'd seen the movie over 100 times; he gave him an autograph on the condition he never see the movie again.
p8o8p TIL "Ahegao" is the japanese word for exaggerated hentai faces in doujinshi
J1QjQ TIL that on Valentine's Day, a group of embittered singles in Shanghai bought up all the odd-numbered seats in the theater, forcing couples to sit apart.
mx40M TIL that U.S. Route 50's endpoints in Ocean City, MD and West Sacramento, CA both have official road signs denoting that the other city is 3,073 miles away