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TIL about the 1907 danish film Løvejagten, which was controversial for containing the actual killing of two lions. The lions were bought from a german zoo, and the footage was banned by denmark.

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5VYXk TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world
A5en TIL that when the CEO of the Sesame Street Workshop was asked if Bert and Ernie are gay, he replied, “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.”
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