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TIL that the first written recipe for guacamole was written down by a pirate.

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kPE7 TIL the height of the Eiffel Tower varies daily by 15cm based on the temperature
R5517 TIL that the Oscar Academy wanted to give Dead Man's Chest an award/nomination for make-up, not digital effects because they were fooled into thinking that Davy Jones was Bill Nighy wearing make-up and rubber tentacles. They had to convince them it was 100% CGI.
7rQgL TIL the 2nd highest grossing movie in Japan in the 1980s after E.T. was a $100,000 film called Cannibal Holocaust, which was so violent the director was arrested & charged with making a snuff movie. Although now viewed as one of the top horror movie of all time, it is still banned in many countries.
Xenr TIL the first extermination camp was created by the Germans to kill Africans in 1904. Had nothing to do with Jews or Nazis.
WkXxA TIL: One Third of all the Australian states are named after Queen Victoria. 2/6 Victoria & Queensland