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TIL that most jokes about Germany are just about Bavaria. That is because the american occupation zone wa in bavaria and they mostly witnessed their culture and assumed that all of Germany is like Bavaria.

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xVP5 TIL Osama Bin Laden wrote a letter to the American people concerning 9/11, saying “America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.”
VMlam TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say "fucking hell" after making a mistake on the piano. The band decided to keep it in because they thought it was funny.
xV8ko TIL that the New York City Ballet has a shoe budget of $780,000: the dancers go through 500 to 800 pairs of pointe shoes performing The Nutcracker over 6 weeks, and use up even more pairs in 2 weeks performing Swan Lake.
PYmmZ TIL in the 1950s there used to be a bus route between London and Calcutta, India
8gxV TIL Ronda Rousey believes that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the 20 children who were murdered there was a government conspiracy