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TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”

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EgOvw TIL Southerners opposed the casting of Englishwoman Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. In anticipation of the backlash, producer David O. Selznick wrote a letter to Ed Sullivan, then an entertainment journalist, with a list of bullet points defending Leigh's casting.
KYOn9 TIL after he was fired from his job as embassador, tortured and banished to his farm estate, N.Machiavelli would return home at night, change the dirty clothes he wore for field work and put on his ambassador outfit, just to study in his office, alone, due to how much he missed his job
9wQdG TIL that East Germany is believed to have made around 3.5B DM off West Germany by ransoming political prisoners
R5V74 TIL the next generation after Gen-Z is being called Generation Alpa
QJayL TIL the Cave of Swallows in Mexico is the largest cave shaft in the world, being almost 1,000 feet wide at the bottom and 1,100 feet deep, and it's home of many birds, but despite its name, almost no swallows