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TIL: About Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, who sacrificed himself for another man in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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mxX5M TIL that the 1981 film Roar used real lions during filming, resulting in at least 70 cast and crew being injured. A crew member was scalped, another had his throat bitten out, and and much of the footage of attacks was used in the final cut of the film. The blood seen in the movie is real.
E8jW TIL that anyone who has ever received a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom or France is permanently ineligible to donate blood in the United States.
Dbje TIL that a man planted 7,000 trees to make a guitar shaped forest as tribute to his late wife.
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