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TIL that the first female geisha appeared in 1751, with geisha before that time being male

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wOL6 TIL The cat in the Godfather 1 opening scene was a stray that was found on set.
mbko TIL During the 1980s the Swiss army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside the country Liechtenstein. The incident was said to have been resolved “over a case of white wine”.
dDD8d TIL in 1955, actor Ray Liotta was adopted from an orphanage at the age of six months. He hired a private detective to locate his biological mother in the 2000s, and learned that he had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters.
Z8yPY TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
XxYD TIL the dinosaurs featured in the film Pee Wee’s Big Adventure are now part of a Creationist Museum that claims the earth is around 6,000 years old.