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TIL of the phenomenon known as "Twin Films," in which two movie studios simultaneously release the same type of movie.

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LEG0 TIL that Croatia voluntarily joined Nazi Germany in WW2 and perpetuated a now largely-forgotten Holocaust of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Their methods of genocide were so brutal that even the Nazis had to tell the Croatians to stop.
mDGE TIL there is more genetic variety within Africa than the rest of the world combined. In other words, Western Europeans and East Asians are potentially more genetically similar to each other than two Africans are genetically similar to each other
rNWmx TIL - in 1974 the band Ace had their only hit, How Long (has this been going on). The song is not about a cheating girlfriend - it’s about the band’s bass player, who was moonlighting with another band
XR9E TIL that science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and his wife claim that Scientology is the result of a bar bet between Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard.
nWElP TIL the first elevator shaft was built in The Cooper Union - four years before the first passenger elevator was even built