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TIL about 1700 people in a three-village community in Central Italy that speak a nearly extinct Slavic language.

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e0yZD TIL that according to Greg Sestero, Tommy Wiseau submitted his film The Room to Paramount, hoping to get them as the distributor. Usually, it takes about two weeks to get a reply. The Room, however, was rejected within 24 hours.
EGed TIL that the CEO of McDonald’s is a former robotics engineer who thought he was being recruited by McDonnell Douglas (a defense contractor) when he was first hired.
XE1eR TIL that one of the biggest mafia bosses in Italy was caught while on the run after they made a connection with a woman’s daily shopping and the boss’s food preference. She was always buying the bosses favourite fishes, salmon and sea bream.
mxWQE TIL of Sir Alexander Cuming, a Scottish nobleman who traveled to the southeast US based off a dream of his wife. He became chief of the Cherokee Nation, defrauded several colonists, and attempted to turn South Carolina into a new Jewish homeland. He later became an alchemist and died in a poorhouse
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