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TIL, Satan's Village was a year round Christmas theme park and is considered the first franchised amusement park in history. At it's peak it featured reindeer shipped from Alaska and had 3 locations across the U.S

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vPYd7 TIL: The Crown (2021), Schitt's Creek (2020) and Angels in America (2003) are the only programs to win all seven of their respective major Emmy categories in one year - directing, writing, all four acting categories and overall series.
b9QJ7 TIL commanders in the Hitlerbunker would cold-call Berlin numbers to keep track of the Soviet advance. They were eventually doomed when a Russian picked up the phone and said "Ivan is here".
rRdmo TIL there is a giant replica of the Vatican in Africa, took $300 million and five years to build but nowdays is used by only a few hundred.
nWoWd TIL that in 2007 to promote the release of Susan Boyle’s new album her team shared the hashtag #susanalbumparty. It’s should have read #SusanAlbumParty.
5YbQD TIL that the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" set a Guinness World Records record title for most swearing in one film. Saying the f-word 506 times with an average of 2.81 times per minute.