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TIL that a ghost army is seen every year on May 17 in Frangokastello, Greece. Nazis reportedly shot at the apparitions during WWII.

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gEgA TIL that Mike Myers has been trying to get a live-action Pepé Le Pew film made, with him voicing the titular Parisian skunk.
wLoPo TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
kJ6yB TIL about Kosher Switch, a light switch that complies with the Sabbath commandment by only working sometimes and hence doesn't count as intentionally lighting a fire
N5DM TIL in Chicago over the last decade more Americans have been murdered than have been killed in Afghanistan.
kkVe TIL 300 years before the crusades, the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate attempted to conquer Western Europe