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TIL that director Lars Von Trier had to hire a “penis double” for William Dafoe’s nude scenes in the film “Anti-Christ” because Dafoe’s genitalia is so large that “everybody got very confused when they saw it.”

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kPg TIL: Colombia‘s drug barons are going underwater, with million dollar submarines that can ship up to eight tons of cocaine per load.
7VEM TIL a village in Peru settles their grudges by fistfighting on christmas day, then go drinking and start the new year off on a clean slate.
ne7Lo TIL that American Civil War Union soldiers were issued 36 pounds of coffee a year and the word "coffee" appeared more in journal entries than "war," "bullet," "cannon," "slavery," "mother" or "Lincoln."
loLk5 TIL about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma by burning them down.
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