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TIL of the corrupt, Spanish-speaking fictional country of Val Verde which has been featured in a number of films including Commando, the Die Hard series and Predator - indicating that they all take place in the same universe.

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wojk7 TIL that during construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, construction workers intentionally emptied the waste of a toilet that was installed on a catwalk between the bridge towers over a Japanese freighter passing underneath. They aimed for the smokestack but missed it and hit the deck instead.
NQy8 TIL Finland has the most heavy metal bands per capita in the world. While Sweden and Norway have only 27 heavy metal bands per 100.000 inhabitants, Finland boasts double as much, 54 bands per 100.000.
1aNe7 TIL that Medieval London had harsh anti-littering laws that required residents to clean the streets outside their home. Fines were so severe that angry mobs would beat people to death for littering in their neighborhoods.
d8g98 TIL during the early 1900s, hat pins were used by women for self-defense; Mademoiselle Gelas even wrote a manual advising a combination of jiu-jitsu, hatpin stabbing and umbrella work to fend off men.
gr9DX TIL of the Persian campaign in WWI, where (despite its neutrality) Iran suffered 2,000,000 deaths- fourth most of all countries and first in terms of percentage of population.