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TIL there’s a militant Islamist group called MILF

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88a4 TIL that anime production typically involves employing the services of 2,000 people per episode around the world and costs US$100,000-300,000 per episode
X8Dr TIL Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans.
Wv79 TIL Steve Buscemi volunteered at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 attacks, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters
9w61G TIL the official spelling of the country Turkey was changed to Türkiye for the UN and the US
M9EA TIL that North Korea had a show called “Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle”