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TIL Bill Murray and his brothers will call Mitch Glazer (Director of Scrooged) anytime they watch Roadhouse to let him know Patrick Swayze is having sex with his wife.

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EKKw TIL that Japan planned to deploy biological weapons against the city of San Diego, California, codenamed “Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night”, which was set for action on September 22, 1945, but not realized due to Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945.
ZpkQR TIL the British colonial government in India had created state-sanctioned brothels for "entertaining" English soldiers, something the English feminists and abolitionists of the time noted with horror. The girls would often be abducted from villages and tended to be as young as fourteen.
R7oKj TIL a disco arrangement of "Star Wars Theme and Cantina Band" by Meco is the only instrumental single to reach Platinum status by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having sold over 2 million units
ANVea TIL that Danish adventurer Torbjørn C. Pedersen began his journey to visit every country without flying on 10 October 2013 at 10:10 am, and after nearly a decade, including two years stranded in Hong Kong during COVID, he completed it on 26 July 2023
9wN77 TIL Before the bison were slaughtered, the native people living in the plains were among world tallest in the world. After, in just one generation, the height of Native American people who depended on bison dropped by over an inch.