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TIL since 1991 Russia has been involved in 12 wars

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BYnd TIL The word ‘flaneur’ refers to a person that wonders around and observes society, a man who is not aimless in being but is not stressed of his life, he doesn’t worry about anything and is free from society’s pressures. He is a man that exists to observe.
ARB TIL: That it is a legal requirement in New York for a property seller to disclose if the property a client is inspecting is believed to be Haunted by Ghosts
67oZ TIL the Mount Pelée volcanic eruption destroyed the adjacent city of St. Pierre with pyroclastic flow and only one man survived in place because he had been imprisoned in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like cell
4kOZo TIL Chris Farley was originally cast as the voice of Shrek. He had 5 days left of line reading when he passed. A sample of Farley as Shrek was released in 2015 & 2022.
PYa1V TIL that during World War II, Lockheed employed the skills of Disney, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox Studios to disguise one of their production plants to look like an ordinary California suburb from the air.