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TIL Phil Collins is a huge Alamo relic collector and historian.

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WkZbo TIL the term "Aryan" has nothing to do with Germans, instead it refers to the Indo-Iranian people who can be found living from the Levant to Northern India, and it's where the name of the country "Iran" is derived from
W7dXA TIL that Peter Benchley regret writing "JAWS". He later devoted himself to ocean conservation.
LBr0 TIL there are 3 cages hanging from the steeple of St. Lambert’s Church, Münster. They have hung there for 479 years. These 3 cages held the corpses of the 3 Anabaptist leaders tortured to death after the fall of Münster in 1536.
e69k TIL there was an antagonist on Courage the Cowardly Dog based off of Quentin Tarantino named “Benton Tarantella”.
LQoVv TIL that Stuart Little isn't a mouse, he's a normal boy in "every way except that he is only just over two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse."