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TIL that Soviet Russia had a movie genre called Eastern(Ostern) which was their version of the Western genre, with stories taking place in the Asian part of Russia

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LQjvQ TIL about the Blue Men of the Minch, mythological creatures from Scotland. They live in the sea and can speak. When a group approaches a ship, their chief says two lines of poetry to the ship's captain. If the captain fails to finish the poem, the Blue Men will try to capsize the ship
LaQQ TIL Julie D'Aubigny was a famous 17th century French opera singer who once entered a convent just so she could have sex with a nun. She also had a habit of seducing women at parties, which would lead their husbands to challenge her to a duel. She was an expert duelist and killed 10 men like this.
R5ag7 TIL that between 1760 and 1860, college riots included Harvard's "Great Butter Rebellion" of 1766, which got the entire sophomore class expelled (some, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, were allowed to return). In Yale riots between 1843 and 1858, students stabbed or shot tutors and firefighters.
oRkvL TIL Port-au-Prince Marriott Hotel opened in 2015 as a response to help Haiti rebuild its tourism industry after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It employs 200 staff, with many who were recruited from Haiti’s poorest areas and features over 200 original artworks
8aDMb TIL that the director of The Notebook wanted someone "not handsome" for the male lead in the movie, so he cast Ryan Gosling for the role.