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TIL Frederick the Great and Voltaire once exchanged rebuses.

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P1YLE TIL the Gulf Cartel criminal organization is currently headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a town directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas.
N7b68 TIL Many psychology experts believe the darkness in fairy tales actually helps children learn to cope with terrible things in the real world. As an example the Beauty and the Beast involves the exposure to ugly danger, the monster, and the triumph over evil, and then finding of the good in the evil!
LYV TIL Bryan Adams was approached for use of his song “Only the Strong Survive” on the Top Gun soundtrack. He did not want to be associated with a film glorifying war, so he declined permission.
yBPp TIL that the winter crew of Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station watches The Thing (1982) on the first day of Winter, every year.
l77MK TIL just after WW2, the US occupied two provinces of Northern China with 50,000 marines to repatriate the 600,000+ Japanese soldiers and Korean conscripts still in China after the war since neither Japan nor either side of the Chinese Civil War were logistically capable of doing so at the time.