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TIL After the release of the 1965 Czechoslovak film 'Loves of a Blonde' hundreds of boys travelled to the town it was set in, because the film falsely depicted women outnumbering men there 16-1.

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b9X1a TIL about the Butt Hole Road, the former name of a street in England. Residents living on the street experienced issues with their address, as they were refused services due to the name and were the target of pranks. The residents raised funds, got local approval and had its name changed in 2009.
5VgBP TIL A High School Teacher who coerced teens into posing for explicit photos was caught because a Janitor cleaning his office saw a CD labeled "300" thinking it was the Zack Snyder film. He played it and discovered the photos.
vLr7 TIL the dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.
yr98 TIL that most senior animators at Disney chose to work on Pocahontas rather than the Lion King as many at Disney had little faith in the project, leaving mostly first time animators to work on the Lion King.
4XQMw TIL that taxidermists use beetles to clean bones for skeletal displays.