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TIL of 'Osterns' or 'Red Westerns.' A genre of film originating from Russia and the Eastern Bloc. Emulating and drawing from American Westerns.

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MeyaK TIL that If you observe a a rainbow from an airplane (a glory), it will make a full circle, and you will always see the shadow of the plane in the center of the circle.
5VwEn TIL Russell Williams is a former Canadian colonel who was convicted of two murders
ANlGB TIL The French drain was popularized by the American Assistant Treasury Secretary Henry Flagg French and was originally made from roofing tiles.
69XPw TIL that after John III Sobieski of Poland-Lithuania defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Kangxi Emperor of Qing China wrote an eulogy praising the Polish king. John III Sobieski later sent a portrait of himself to Kangxi.
QN9yX TIL that during a dogfight, Pakistan shot down an Indian fighter plane. When the pilot parachuted onto the land, he asked a local boy whether he was in India or Pakistan. The boy replied that he was in India, so the pilot started chanting for India, at which point he was caught by Pakistani official