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TIL Temple of Doom is actually a prequel set one year before the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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womm1 TIL Infectious Grooves' song Do What I Tell Ya! criticized Rage Against The Machine's relationship with multinational conglomerate corporation, Sony.
jNpLR TIL that up until February 15, 1971, there were 240 Pennies in a British Pound. ????
ANgkn TIL Darwin suffered a curious denial about his mother’s death, once writing in a condolence letter “never in my life having lost one near relation” and during a Scrabble-like game, when another player added ‘M’ to ‘OTHER’, he stared long at the board then cried: ‘There's no such word as M-OTHER!’.
nALG TIL Squidbillies has Higher Ratings than the Daily Show with Trevor Noah
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat