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TIL that Dennis Rodman started dying his hair blonde after seeing Wesley Snipes’ character in the movie Demolition Man.

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Z8YyG TIL that in the 1650s the Holy Roman Emperor allowed the Lutherans to build three churches. Petulantly, he stipulated that the churches be constructed in one year using only wood, straw and loam. In response, the Lutherans constructed the ornate Churches of Peace, now UNESCO world heritage sites.
gMKa7 TIL Under tribal law, fluency in Navajo is mandatory for candidates to the office of the President of the Navajo Nation
5LlB TIL we have never opened the door to The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huang who had the Terracotta army built for himself.
Qjl9 TIL a “companion” is literally “a person who you eat bread with.” The word comes from Old French compaignon, from Latin com- “together with” and panis “bread”.
nkoW TIL Josip Broz Tito fed up with Stalin sending assassins wrote openly, “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle (…) If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”