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TIL Britain has not been successfully invaded in 951 years

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ZDvQ TIL Suge Knight’s girlfriend who was about to testify against him disappeared and hasn’t been found since 2008. When all charges were cleared Suge Knight said “God is good, Happy Holidays”
Rlw TIL there was a planned sequel to the 1997 Batman & Robin, with Nicholas Cage considered to play Scarecrow.
8eKjb TIL that Amazon and Congo Rivers were part of the same river system before the continents drifted away
DQAMD TIL that the visual effects of the film, The Fountain, cost only a total of $140,000 on a budget of $35 million due to macro photographer Peter Parks’ creative solutions and a bare minimum of CGI.
NXBG8 TIL about the Melanesian “cargo cults” - an indigenous group who superstitiously recreated Allied / Japanese military equipment, clothes, and routines in the hopes that it would bring back more of the resources they saw delivered to bases on nearby islands during WWII.