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TIL leprechauns are a protected species in the EU.

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rNN14 TIL Harald Hirschsprung (describer of Hirschsprung's disease) helped establish a children's hospital named after Queen Louisa of Denmark in 1879. She wanted the walls decorated with Bible verses, but Hirschsprung insisted on pictures of animals. After this, the Queen declined to enter the hospital
l7Jb1 TIL there is a call to make Nikola Tesla a Saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church
KxR4 TIL Disney removed the Tarzan character from their parks because women kept pinching the butts of the loincloth-wearing actors who played him.
E1vRp TIL Neil Gaiman wrote the script for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film Princess Mononoke
ANJol TIL: Ed Leedskalnin and his megalithic creation of Coral Castle became a part of the American popular culture due to the magnitude of a single man's effort and ingenuity. Some conjectured that he used esoteric ancient knowledge to levitate blocks of stone.