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TIL that the working title for "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" was "Bill & Ted go to Hell".

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9Ed6 TIL Tagalog is the fifth most spoken language in the united states, ranking higher than Vietnamese, Korean, German, Arabic and Russian.
jJxX TIL a Chechen nationalist group took an entire school hostage in the town of Beslan, which resulted in the death of over 300 people, including children. This group has been increasingly associated with major jihadist/terrorist groups in the Middle East and remains prevalent in the world to this day.
KOBmQ TIL that the US Navy has a massive indoor pool called MASK (maneuvering and seakeeping basin) in Maryland that houses 12-million gallons of water and can replicate any ocean wave situation in the world, ideal for testing equipment and scale models of boats
LkgDp TIL that the U.S. government has guidelines on how to hunt a yeti.
DQQGV TIL that Christopher Columbus's signature is written in a combinaison of Greek and Latin script, whose exact meaning has not been decyphered yet. People have used the signature to "prove" that he was Greek, Portuguese, Jewish...