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TIL U.S. Taxpayers funded re-forestation efforts in Lebanon for the historic Cedar trees

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D1MKD TIL in the 1975 film, The Giant Spider Invasion, “To motivate the screenwriter, who was told to write 10 to 15 pages a day, Rebane (the director/producer )locked him in a cabin and told him to finish the daily task or he would not be fed.”
ne0yY TIL British colonizers infected Tasmanian Aboriginal women with venereal diseases that left a significant percentage of the population unable to reproduce. This was one of several factors leading the complete eradication of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
69AEQ TIL after Hitler met Franco in 1940, he told Mussolini: "I prefer to have three or four of my own teeth pulled out than to speak to that man again!"
v1Ao7 TIL Leonardo DiCaprio used to be a break dancer before he made it big as an actor. According to him he thinks he kept getting rejected by agents because he was a break dancer at the time and had crazy haircuts.
a8nxo TIL that Rolls-Royce, a BMW subsidiary, has no direct connection to Rolls-Royce-branded vehicles manufactured prior to 2003. Volkswagen's Bentley is the direct successor to Rolls-Royce. Volkswagen sold the brand name and logo to BMW.