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TIL many of the creatures in the ‘Silent Hill’ movie were played by dancers so they could make disturbing movements.

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LQvrP TIL that Desmostylia, extinct ancestors of manatees, had a unique way of feeding: they vacuumed seagrass from the seafloor by uprooting it entirely with their mouths. This distinctive feeding method likely contributed to their extinction as they competed with other marine herbivores.
b6JxQ TIL that the final straw for Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait was the Kuwaiti emir telling the Iraqi Foreign Minister his intention to turn "every Iraqi woman into a $10 prostitute" by ruining Iraq financially
NMZb TIL a Russian equivalent of “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” is “Catch the bear before you sell his skin”
4aW6 TIL, Today is the 150th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to northern forces and the end of the American Civil War.
wLBmo TIL in pre-20th century European culture, red hair was commonly identified as the distinguishing negative Jewish trait. During the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish; and writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair