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TIL that the Spongebob Squarepants theme-song is a popular marching cadence in the Russian armed forces.

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EgDrx TIL Jeff Cohen who played Chunk, the chubby kid in the Goonies went on to study law and entertainment law later co-founding the Cohen & Gardner firm in Beverly Hills. Earlier he asked Goonies director R.Donner for a recommendation for his college application Donner and his wife offered to pay for it
b9990 TIL that after Spartacus’ revolt in 73 BCE, 6,000 slaves were crucified along a 120-mile stretch of road called the Appian Way. This equated to roughly 50 slaves per mile or roughly 1 slave every hundred feet. The mass crucifixion served as a deterrent to anyone else who thought to defy Rome.
J1YLl TIL: Of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit. Frustrated artist Arno Funke built bombs and extorted high-end stores in the 1980s/1990s, calling himself Dagobert [for the German] Scrooge McDuck.He became a German folk hero, for his intricate mechanical devices, care in avoiding hurt, & intrepid escapes
e0LKg TIL in 2015 there was a duck in England, named Star, who liked wearing a bow tie, going to the pub with his owner and having a pint of beer.
0BAR TIL when enlisting in the British army during WWII writer/actor Sir Peter Ustinov requested tank duty “because you can go into battle sitting down,” and as result his superiors concluded, “On no account must this man be put in charge of others.” so he was assigned to the infantry instead