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TIL The Italian-American Civil Rights League campaigned to have the word "Mafia" considered a racial epithet. They were a Mafia front.

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o6aE TIL the highest troop concentration in the history of counter-insurgency warfare was not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, but in Ireland, where the British stationed 20 troops for every 1000 civilians during the peak of The Troubles
Z9Po TIL in Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest none of the actors knew that Geoffrey Rush would reprise his role as ‘Captain Barbossa’ so the look on their faces when he appears are their faces of shock of not seeing Rush for 3 years.
epKJg TIL there were three separate South American remakes of Married with Children in the 2000s that ran for hundreds of episodes, starting in 2004 with the Colombian version of Casados con hijos.
M7Dj7 TIL Paraguay has a province named after former US President Rutherford B. Hayes. This is because Hayes arbitrated a large border dispute in 1878, granting the vast majority of the disputed land to Paraguay. Despite being mostly unknown in the US, Hayes is considered one of Paraguay's heroes.
dDYB8 TIL SpongeBob SquarePants was originally going to be called SpongeBoy Ahoy!. However, the name had to be changed because SpongeBoy was already trademarked. Creator Stephen Hillenburg chose SquarePants to emphasize the character's distinct shape and goofy personality.