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TIL Bill Murray once blurted out that Kathleen Turner was ‘a great fuck’ at an all-star benefit. When pressed to explain himself, Murray nodded at the cans of wine provided for the event, admitting 'I’ve had six.’

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jv6X TIL in 1943, a Mexican farmer named Dionisio Pulido had a volcano start to form in his corn field. By the early 50s it was over 400 meters tall. Before being evacuated and leaving his home for the last time, he left a sign that read “This volcano is owned and operated by Dionisio Pulido.”
xXOD TIL that The emu and red kangaroo are on the Australian coat of arms, because they are unable to move backwards and symbolize the nation moving forward constantly
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
4XOW6 TIL The East India Company controlled its own army, which by 1800 comprised some 200,000 soldiers, more than twice the membership of the British Army at that time. The army was used to carry out officially sanctioned looting within Indian States, along with forced over-taxation.
ZvmG TIL That ancient egyptian gods Horus and Set battled it out for dominion over egypt by trying to force the other to consume his semen