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TIL the Spanish word for handcuffs is esposas ( wives)

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69lyw TIL In the 1580s, a Franciscan Friar named Martin Ignacio de Loyola made the first eastward circumnavigation of Earth. He was also the first man to circumnavigate the globe in both directions and the first to use overland routes in circumnavigation.
8e80K TIL that black and white film can be developed using instant coffee and sodium carbonate, a process called “Caffenol”, instead of utilizing traditional developing chemicals.
PY9Kg TIL Leonardo DiCarpio was offered the lead role in Hocus Pocus, but turned it down to act in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Though he was paid far less, it earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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X00WP TIL after General Dwight D. Eisenhower found victims of Nazi concentration camps, he anticipated that in the future there would be attempts to deny what happened. He ordered all possible pictures taken, and had Germans from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and bury the dead.