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TIL Grey Worm from Game Of Thrones(Jacob Anderson) is a musician that goes by the alias Raleigh Ritchie (named after his favourite characters from The Royal Tenenbaums)

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kJAPd TIL Naskapi First Nations had a festival in honour of the bear, where only bear meat was allowed to be consumed during these feasts. The neck and shoulder meat were divided into twelve slices, each slice sufficed to feed two men
Yp9XA Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car.
RZG6 TIL Baboons kidnap and raise feral dogs as pets. The dogs protect the baboons from other feral dogs and the baboons care for the dogs including grooming them, an act only done for those considered as family.
rRyQ1 TIL Atala is the first realm of the underworld in Hinduism. When a man enters Atala, women serve him an intoxicating cannabis drink that induces sexual energy. Then, these women enjoy sexual play with the traveller, who feels 'stronger than ten thousand elephants and forgets impending death'.
PYQwn TIL an alligator can go two years without feeding by burning fat reserves at the base of it's tail.