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TIL that ‘Spirited Away’ is actually about prostitution

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mxblM TIL the "old woman" from Metallica's song "The Memory Remains", Marianne Faithfull, was only 50 at the time of recording and is still alive.
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EgmD0 TIL that the one of the last major eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius prior to the destruction of Pompeii was around 1995 B.C, 2000 years before 79 A.D. It destroyed every bronze age settlement in the area. Thousands of footprints left behind by fleeing survivors can today be seen in the hardened flow stone.
8exoK TIL that after Winter War out of 5,572 soviet prisoners of war returned from Finland 4,354 were sentenced to imprisonment in labor camps and 232 executed
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