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TIL in Phantom of the Opera (1925) there is a mysterious prologue with a man holding a lantern talking. No surviving dialogue or title cards exist, and historians are unsure of where this scene came from

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mxdGR TIL The Hagia Sophia has some odd scratches inside. For hundreds of years, their origin and purpose was unknown. It was later discovered that they are Futhark runes made by a Norseman far from home. A message, carved into the building he knew would never be destroyed. The message? “Hafdan was here.”
Egkyd TIL the quote "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant" by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor), was actually from the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!
0w7rN TIL that in 2014, Afroman made a remix of his 2001 song 'Because I Got High' where he changed the lyrics to reflect the positive aspects of getting high
QJGA9 TIL Luxembourg is the wealthiest nation on Earth per capita, where citizens earn an average of $114K
e0o4b TIL that Florida had brought in 2 Irula tribesmen from India to catch the invasive Burmese pythons. When 1000 hunters were able to manage catching just 106 snakes, the duo caught 27 snakes in just 4 weeks, including a 16 ft long female.