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TIL that Commodus, a Roman emperor often portrayed in media as vile and cruel, would shoot hundreds of animals with arrows and javelins every morning, and fought as a gladiator every afternoon, winning all the fights. He was strangled by his wrestler partner and declared a public enemy post death.

Kj5E TIL John Morales, the voice actor behind “McGruff the Crime Dog”, a cartoon used by the American police in building crime awareness amongst children, is currently serving a 16 year prison sentence.
W7Ng9 TIL There are different rates of suicides and suicidal behavior between males and females. While females more often have suicidal thoughts, males die by suicide more frequently. In the Western world, males die by suicide three to four times more often than do females.
kOWjB TIL that the star Antares has a diameter around 700 times larger than our sun’s, which is approximately 6 times the distance from Earth to Mars and 2/3 of the distance to Saturn, while having a mass only 7 times larger than the mass of our sun
7EMZ TIL in a deleted scene from The Truman Show (1998), the show’s director described a plan to have a female actress seduce Truman into conceiving a child on air, then they’d create a parallel show to follow that child’s life.
7p5X TIL that in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman is made of tin because his axe was cursed and one by one cut off all his limbs, head, and body. Each was replaced for him by a tinsmith.