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TIL New Zealand has a cat killing contest, with price money.

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naXB TIL a man with a dream to swim with whales, hid at Seaworld after closing. He tried to swim with the killer whale Tillikum, only to be killed by him. His parents then sued Seaworld claiming that the whale is wrongly portrayed as friendly because of the stuffed toys sold there.
awRYJ TIL of Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian revolutionary whose English speeches were wildly popular in 1850s America. He learned his archaic English from Shakespeare books while in prison; such speeches even influenced the Gettysburg Address, as Abraham Lincoln was a noted fan.
Y66v TIL that Steven Spielberg made the Indiana Jones movies as revenge for being rejected from directing a James Bond movie.
NQVP TIL that Mozart once wrote a prank composition that could only be played if the pianist stretched his two hands to the fullest, simultaneously hitting the middle notes with his nose.
OOX TIL Jackie Chan not only voiced the leading male role in the Chinese version of “Mulan” but also preformed the song “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.”