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TIL Neil Gaiman wrote the script for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film Princess Mononoke

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6beZ TIL that the first documented appearance of “the finger” in the United States was in 1886, when Charles Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
b7vE TIL that White Star crewmembers on the Titanic were considered fired as of the moment it sank
78Qo7 TIL that a popular theatrical superstition holds that every theatre has a ghost. The Palace Theatre in London, for example, keeps two seats in their balcony permanently open to provide seating for their theatre's ghosts.
VBn0 TIL Finland has a heavy metal band for children that dresses up like dinosaurs
oRBWo TIL that Outback Steakhouse was founded in Tampa, FL by four Americans who had never visited Australia. They simply saw an opportunity to ride the wave of popularity of all things Australian following the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee. Their concept was “American food and Australian fun.”