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TIL that one of the most sacred shrines in Japan is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years. This has been going on for over 1,000 years, and some records indicate it may have started 2,000 years ago.

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b6yp4 TIL that Mountain Dew was originally a term for describing Scottish whiskey before bottlers Barney Hartman and Ally Hartman invented the soda of the same name in the 1940s.
7ragx TIL the film crew of Terminator 2 refused to film the helicopter chase scene because it was so dangerous. James Cameron ended up filming it himself.
VWmp TIL that it is illegal in 13 European countries to deny the Holocaust.
epVR4 TIL Peri Gilpin (who played Roz on Frasier) lost her news anchor father (Jim O'Brien) in a skydiving accident in 1983.
gya9 TIL Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel where his own mother worked. He found an escape in watching movies because, “you were never in doubt as to why the women in them were screaming.”