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TIL that the largest export from Columbia to the US is not coffee but crude petroleum.

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ppJG TIL a civil war veteran lived to see thermonuclear weapons and I Love Lucy
9YV5D TIL closed captions and subtitles are different. Closed captions assume that watchers can't hear anything, therefore describing background noises, music and other audio cues that need discribing, while subtitles are assuming that the watchers can hear, and just says what the characters are saying.
YpbNZ TIL: In 16th c. Europe, it was considered manly for men to wear elaborate headdresses made of ostrich feathers.
e04WD TIL that coconut farmers in Thailand train pigtailed macaques to harvest their coconuts. A trained macaque can pick up to 1600 coconuts a day, while a human can harvest around a 100.
a8kNy TIL the iconic cutoff sweatshirt look for 1983's Flashdance was created on accident. Actress Jennifer Beals accidentally left her favorite sweatshirt in the dryer too long and shrunk it. She cut out the neck hole in order to fit her head through and went to a wardrobe fitting. The director loved it.