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TIL of Hanns Scharff, a WWII German interrogator who never used torture, later moved to the US and designed the mosaic inside Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World.

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p8mN TIL The Pillars of Creation were destroyed around the same time our neolithic ancestors were inventing the wheel
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m110v TIL that despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the movie Fargo, saying it was a true story, the movie was for the most part not true. It only took parts of other true stories, one of which became the wood chipper scene.
4oeN TIL that the kids in Are You Afraid of the Dark were throwing non dairy creamer on the fire to make it flare up.
by6j TIL it is illegal for anyone, even children, to wear camouflage clothing of any kind in Barbados