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TIL the Southern Baptist denomination was created for the sole purpose of supporting slavery in the South, they didn’t apologize for their stance on slavery until 1995.

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rkG1 TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany
m1P9E TIL subway isn’t legally allowed to call its bread “bread” in Ireland. They consider it “cake”
8a11b TIL: Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
VQX4 TIL that Hitler had a digestive disorder that made him chronically fart.
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