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TIL that there is a dam in India that still standing after 2000 years after it was built

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neVeB TIL Steven Spielberg did not storyboard the D-Day invasion scene in "Saving Private Ryan" in order to make things more chaotic and unpredictable. In the original script, the entire invasion is covered in only seven pages.
4X65J TIL of Rudloe Manor, the UK's own Area 51. For years, the RAF’s secret service worked in underground tunnels and chambers beneath the manor on UFO investigations. It's existence was consistently denied by the MOD, but in 2007, during a release of declassified files, it was finally confirmed.
j6NKX TIL that European football fans used to throw bananas onto the field to taunt players of African descent.
A5va TIL that non-mixed-race marriages were banned in Paraguay in the early 1800s
R7XN9 TIL that the little "light" dots that sometimes fly around in your vision are called "blue-sky sprites" and its part of a phenomenon called "Blue Field Entopic Phenomenon" where white blood cells are moving in the capillaries in-front of your retina.