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TIL that Quentin Tarantino used to work as an usher at a movie theater, meaning he got to watch movies for free--but it was a porn theater, and porn movies bored him.

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BeBd TIL that Australia is the only continent outside of Antartica WITHOUT an established deer population.
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LQpXP TIL that in recorded history, there has only been a single hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean to which made landfall. Ever.
a8OEL TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had named St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet, as the seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who wrote the sole encyclopedia for nearly a millenium around 650 AD.
gMPvW TIL the phrase “The First World War” was used as early as 1918, by a journalist who felt it would not be the last.