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TIL that in the original Greek, the legendary island of Themiscyra, home of the Amazons, was not located at sea (as portrayed in Wonder Woman comics) but in the Terme river in what is now northern Turkey

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x69d1 TIL according to Rotten Tomatoes, the worst movie ever is the 2001 action flick “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” called “startlingly inept” and “without a hint of wit [or] coherence”
1605D TIL: North Korea has their own video game consoles. One is the Moranbong, a mix between the Wii and a Kinect. However, it is in reality a Subor G80 from China. The promotional images were also copied from Nintendo and Microsoft. The games include Contra.
kO9Ve TIL the BBC once managed to convince people that spaghetti grew on trees by showing a three-minute 'documentary' on April's fools day
Ype5W TIL Antarctica was discovered so recently, that the first person to set foot on it was an American citizen.
1xBO TIL that Tom Hanks has a brother, Jim Hanks, where a majority of his work is to do voice overs that sound like Tom Hanks.