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TIL the CIA planned to kick the British off of the Falklands, send them to Scotland, and give the islands to Argentina.

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g4Kb TIL that the reason Sir Christopher Lee does not speak in the 1966 film Dracula: Prince of Darkness is because he thought the lines for Dracula were so appalling that he refused to say them
dD5xK TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.
NeYM TIL that the first lives of geishas were lived by men and after 100 years, women started entering the trade, but with such elegance, charm and mystery they soon took over the profession
XEKoR TIL China has a Dwarf Theme Park exclusively staffed by dwarves. Called “Kingdom of the Little People”, the park employs over 100 Chinese dwarves to sing and dance.
WNxo TIL there is a religion called Christian atheism. Practitioners believe in essentially the same things as traditional Christians except that the Bible is completely metaphorical and that God and/or Jesus is an allegory for human morality rather than a real being.