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TIL - No matter what language it was translated in, Robin Hood: Men in Tights made fun of Kevin Costner

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Vxg4 TIL the word “barbarian” originally referred to people who don’t speak Greek, because the Greeks thought people who spoke a foreign tongue sounded like they were saying “bar bar bar” all the time.
Z8L9B TIL that the United States held a Presidential election in 1864 during the American civil war
OoZrY TIL Brazil could not afford to send its athletes to Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics. So they sent coffee bags with them which the athletes had to sell along the way to fund their own travel.
G6X4 TIL that more people were killed in the Battle of the Somme (141 days), than died in the American Civil War (4 years, 27 days)
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