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TIL Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer as a teenager.

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9BRp TIL that in 1912 the Australian national rugby team played 16 games in the US and Canada. It played poorly because players stayed in college frat houses and partied too much; one member said “We were never in bed. That was the trouble. I’ve never had such a time in my life”.
wLJdE TIL That There Is A Statue In Russia That Honors All The Lab Mice That Have Sacrificed Their Life For Genetic Research
w5w6 TIL someone died after being stabbed in the leg by a rooster. The bird had a knife attached to its limb to take part in cockfighting.
nWEjW TIL of the 1972 Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor air show disaster.
Bg7QL TIL that gooning is a form of legal kidnapping in the US where a parent can hire someone to kidnap a kid they think is troubled at night to bring them to boarding school or behavior modification facility.