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TIL Johnny Knoxville was a stand in/stunt double for Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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78OpM TIL that the origin of the term ‘BullShit’ dates back to the 17th century. “Bull", meaning nonsense, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in British and American slang and came into popular use during WWII. "bull" from the Old French bole, meaning "fraud, deceit".
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat
ZpZYp TIL the Australian language Ngan'gi (Ngan’gityemerri) has more than fifteen genders, including masculine human, feminine human, vegetables, drinks, canines, non-canine animals and two different genders for spears
ZpAOD TIL about "inspector satellites", spy satellites that are launched to monitor foreign spy satellites by flying into orbits that are closely synchronised to theirs.
P1pmn TIL in 1941, Allied forces fought a successful delaying action against the invading Nazis at Thermopylae, the very spot where Spartans fought a successful delaying action against the invading Persians in 480 B.C.