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TIL that the wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia lead to a 30-day voyage to find fresh water, a massacre, executions, and multiple battles over a makeshift limestone fort.

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9JQB TIL Jessica Alba owns a company that’s been valued at almost $1 billion
0oBN TIL that Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace do not actually win the Jack Rabbit Slim’s Twist Contest. We see them walk into her house with the trophy but later when Butch is walking into his apartment a commercial is on, and the faint voice in the commercial says that the trophy was stolen.
8aLvP TIL Jimmy Neutron never got cancelled. DNA Productions decided to make The Ant Bully, which did so poor in the box office it actually sent the whole company under in 2006.
nWdWr TIL in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy and marched to Rome, where his army defeated the Papal forces. The 80-year-old Pope Pius VI was arrested for refusing to grant authority to Napoleon. He was taken prisoner and died in captivity 18 months later.
abxy TIL: The song “Eye of the tiger” was specifically written at the request of Sylvester Stallone for Rocky 3, after Queen denied him permission to use “Another One Bites the Dust”.