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TIL the letter C in latin is always pronounced as a K. Famous names like Caesar was actually pronounced Kaesar and worlds like Circus is pronounced Kirkos.

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Brv8r TIL Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully-painted feature film and took six years to make
yrnl TIL we’re closer to the time period the Jetson’s lived in (2062) then the year the show was created (1962).
0d9gN TIL that the second-highest mountain in the world, K2, has an overall death rate of 13% and only 377 people have successfully climbed it (compared to 11,258 Everest summits).
e0g84 TIL the Chicago Sun-Times bought and and ran a bar to show and uncover corruption.
VVeD TIL two men disappeared in the space of three months, they were both stopped by the same officer and he left them at a Circle K. Neither man has ever been found.