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TIL that in Great Britain, calling something “bollocks” (testicles) is a criticism but calling something “the dog’s bollocks” is a compliment.

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Qye9 TIL that in the earliest versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl cannibalizes her own grandmother and gets eaten by the wolf after getting into bed with him.
b6E9E TIL that both Ilia Volok, Andrew Divoff and Levan Uchaneishvili were in Wishmaster 2 (they worked two years ago in Air Force One)
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