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TIL that there’s a Darth Vader Grotesque/Gargoyle at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

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rNNDw TIL that the freed Africans Americans who were resettled in Liberia ended up oppressing the native Liberians in the same way that they were mistreated in the USA, including by establishing plantations
7xwP TIL that the oldest living tree is 4,765 years old and lives in a secret location.
GWXG TIL every year in the mekong river in Thailand, hundreds of fireballs erupt from the surface of the water, and nobody knows what causes them. locals believe a mythical serpent called Naga spits fire from the water. The event is known as Naga fireballs.
kO4g7 TIL Bing Crosby was refused a hotel room for wearing jeans so Levis made him a jean jacket - the Canadian Tuxedo was born
RGd9 TIL the stunt coordinator of Deliverance felt a canoe scene with a dummy in it looked too phony. After reshooting the scene with himself in the canoe, Burt Reynolds, coughing up water and nursing a broken coccyx, asked how the scene looked. The director responded, “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”