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TIL Hallowe'en begins the 3 day event of Allhallowtide...

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m5Mo TIL that the Milky Way is currently in the middle of a absorbing another smaller galaxy, the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy.
D5pg TIL that Charlie Chaplin put up the 2013 equivalent of 25million USD of his own money to finance his anti-Nazi file The Great Dictator while the US was still at peace with Nazi Germany.
d8gGQ TIL: Summer Camps participated in Cold War diplomacy by having campers from the Soviet Union go to US camps and US campers go to Soviet Union summer caps.
5YBjr TIL of a legend of Bodhidharma a Monk who fell asleep wall gazing, to stop it happening again he cut off his eyelids. When his eyelids hit the ground they became the first tea plants. This is apparently why the character for eyelids and tea are the same in Japanese.
egWn TIL of Steven Jay Russell, who impersonated a prison guard to simply walk out of prison. Upon recapture Russell lowered and paid his bail by pretending to be a judge, escaped his next capture by impersonating a doctor, and did so AGAIN by faking his death, eventually landing him a 144yr sentence.