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TIL that Quentin Tarantino wants to stop making movies after his 10th film. The Hateful Eight was his 8th film.

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1aj7r TIL about the Seal of Solomon, a signet ring attributed to King Solomon in medieval Arabic tradition. It is the predecessor of the Star of David, and gave Solomon the power to command demons, jinn (genies) and spirits, or to speak with animals.
nedrb TIL the Teletubbies are canonically racially diverse and they live in the "Tubbytronic Superdome"
b9eBj TIL of the Wake Island Rail, a little-known casualty of WW2; it went extinct when Japanese soldiers were stranded on the island by a US blockade. With no fear of predators, a combo of overhunting by the starving Japanese & the bombing of the island by the US wiped out the entire species in 1 year
wodxP TIL a Serbian farmer from Kosovo was at the centre of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a bottle into his anus.
NepJ TIL Chinese guerrillas during WWII were given bags of flour, mixed with the powdery white high explosive HMX, to bypass Japanese checkpoints. The resulting mixture could safely be cooked into pancakes and eaten. Leftover dough and pastries could still be used as explosives. Code name: “Aunt Jemima.”