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TIL learned that Belize was a British colony

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PyBL TIL that Sony Pictures went so trigger-happy with their illegitimate “copyright infringement” take-downs over the flop ‘Pixels’ that even the official trailer was taken down.
KOV7G TIL about ATLAS-I, aka Trestle, the world's largest structure made entirely of wood, glue laminate, wooden bolts/nuts and sufficient to support a fully loaded B-52 bomber (for elevated EMP testing) 1,000 ft long, 125 ft (about 12 stories) tall, and constructed of 6.5 million board-feet of lumber.
d8A19 TIL At the end of the Gulf War, 20 people died in Kuwait due to falling bullets from celebratory gunfire.
6lMY TIL that pizza wasn’t popular in the U.S. until after WWII, when U.S. troops (including Dwight Eisenhower) returned home from occupied Italy with an appreciation for Italian pizza.
R50x8 TIL Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books and the film adaptations, lacked experience in screenwriting. After winning two Oscars, he purchased a book on screenwriting to educate himself and found an intriguing piece of advice in the first chapter: "Study Godfather I"