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TIL the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was banned from Poland because censors felt it was "pro-German". Ironically enough it was also banned in Nazi Germany for being "anti-German"

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x68dD TIL of "Snowzilla", a giant snowman that was erected annually each Christmas season from 2005 to 2013, and again in 2023, by Billy Powers and other local residents of Anchorage, Alaska. Originally 16 feet tall, "Snowzilla" grew to 22 feet tall in 2006, and 25 feet tall in 2008.
grPey TIL there was a plan to dam the Yukon river and create a reservoir the size of Lake Erie
akZL TIL that North Korea is the World’s only Necrocracy -the supreme leader, Kim Il Sung, still rules, and he’s dead…
grPny TIL Nicaragua's government is so corrupt that the vice president is the wife of the president.
awN4L TIL The Anthropocene is the newest Epoch and is defined by human impact on the geologic record. The two major proposed markers for the Epoch are nuclear fallout/products and chicken bones. Chickens were domesticated 8ka but the modern broiler is easily distinguished in modern human settlements.