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TIL About the Bantu Expansion where in 10 waves of migration between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE Bantu peoples from the area around modern day Cameroon settled nearly all of Sub-Saharan Africa eliminating, displacing or absorbing most of the indigenous peoples of the region.

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a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.
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