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TIL Tovstonogov Great Drama Theatre adapted Anton Chekhov's play - "The Cherry Orchard" in Minecraft

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NyYe TIL China’s Emperor Qin sent his magician to find the elixir of life. The magician sailed away with the “sacrifice” of 6000 boys and girls, lots of wheat, and never returned. Some believe that he settled in Japan and became their first emperor.
447J TIL lawyers from the Disney corporation denied a couple’s request to engrave Winnie Pooh on the gravestone of their stillborn child without paying royalties.
x6MM7 TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days