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TIL Forrest Gump is being preserved as a culturally significant part of human history.

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lRZ5 TIL that India has a problem with millions shitting in public.
N7P4b TIL in 1941, a Great Dane named Juliana saved her master's home from burning down during the Blitz by urinating on a German incendiary bomb which had fallen through the roof. For this she was awarded the Blue Cross, similar to the Dickin Medal.
D1VXV Til: that the word meander comes from the name of a river in Turkey.
eBAE TIL The snow used for the maze in the climactic scene of ‘The Shining’ was made from 900 tons of salt and Styrofoam. The snow was also used for the Hoth scenes in 'Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back’, which was filmed in the same studio later that year.
kJW8W TIL about the siege of Numantia in 143 BCE. The Romans surrounded an Iberian city. The citizens chose to commit collective suicide rather than become Roman slaves.