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TIL the song 1985 by Bowling For Soup is actually a cover, the original being released a year earlier by SR-71

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NeYM TIL that the first lives of geishas were lived by men and after 100 years, women started entering the trade, but with such elegance, charm and mystery they soon took over the profession
ADPPl TIL In 1850, California law made it legal for towns to pay bounties for Indian scalps. Shasta City offered $5 for every Indian head brought to city hall, expenses reimbursed by the state treasury. There were 150,000 Indians in California before the 49ers, by 1870 less than 30,000.
dDEPK TIL "bugger" was first used to describe "Bulgarian" heretics during the Albigensian Crusade. Many sympathized with the victims of the crusade because of their moral purity, so the Catholic clergy launched a vilifying campaign against them, associating them with unorthodox sexual practices and sodomy
R71v8 TIL that moving boulder in spongebob during the pizza delivery episode actual exist.
M7B0W TIL: In the classic cartoon strip, Tintin, Tintin is always moving left to right and his opponents are moving right to left. His adventure, "Cigars of the Pharoah," had to be redrawn when it was discovered that this rule was broken.