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TIL actual Witch hunts are still occurring in Nepal, and may involve a combination of torture, beating, burning alive and feeding of excrement

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4kRko TIL Belgium's "Chocolate Hands" refers to their role in the colonization of the Congo. This included flying Congolese people to Brussels to live in a "human zoo" where spectators would throw bananas at them. They quietly ended this practice in 1958.
Vex8 TIL that Lego tried to issue a Cease and Desist against the Magic Portal, the first stop-motion brick film. Luckily the creator, Lindsay Fleay, had secured a release from Lego Australia ahead of time, and Lego backed down.
jNgWQ TIL that in 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that records which document Israel's arms sales to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide will remain sealed and concealed from the public.
Bryvb TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the script for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.
x6Jgg TIL when writer-director Nora Ephron was dying from cancer in 2012, she planned her own funeral, reserving $100K for the occasion. It was held at Alice Tully Hall in NYC, and Nora decided on everything, from the food (perfect brisket), to the speakers, and how long the speakers were allowed to talk.