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TIL the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth is meant to represent the Catholic Church and its role in aiding fascism

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Wx6X TIL the first Indian to make contact with the pilgrims boldly walked into the Plymouth encampment and greeted them in English to everyone’s complete shock
QDAL TIL that, in 2008, about 30,000 high school students agreed to write “this is Sparta” in their AP exam booklets.
78ML7 TIL that Volkswagen had a huge ranch in the Brazilian Amazonia and is accused of have used modern slaves in the 70s and 80s
J1bRm TIL Ants can end up following each other in a cercle (called an ant mill or a death spiral), until they die of exhaustion. Similar phenomena have been noted in processionary caterpillars and fish.
78Q4b TIL In 1815, Jefferson sold his 6,700-volume personal library to Congress for $23,950 to replace books lost when the British burned the U.S. Capitol, which housed the Library of Congress, during the War of 1812. Jefferson's books formed the foundation of the rebuilt Library of Congress's collections