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TIL There's a culture of walking around barefoot in New Zealand

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lod17 TIL George C. Scott agreed to star in "Patton" only if they used an earlier discarded script written by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola said "I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech".
OoyY1 TIL: There have been serious plans to divert the ocean or the Nile into the Sahara to turn it lush
rQAy TIL in 2007, a 17 year old visiting the San Francisco Zoo provoked a Tiger enough that it leapt from its confinement and killed him
Ooab6 TIL Sara Bareilles wrote "Love Song" in response to her record label demanding that she write a "marketable love song"
v10QD TIL Liverpool was a major slaving port and its ships and merchants dominated the transatlantic slave trade in the second half of the 18th century. The town and its inhabitants derived great civic and personal wealth from the trade which laid the foundations for the port's future growth.