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TIL that In November 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s tiger summit. DiCaprio’s persistence in reaching the event after encountering two plane delays caused then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a “muzhik” or “real man”.

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JOKl TIL That breast cancer survivors from all over the globe flock to Little Vinnie’s in Baltimore. Little V is world famous as the “Michelangelo of Nipple Tattoos”, he cosmetically tattoos highly detailed areolas on women who lost theirs from mastectomies.
78MDP Today I learned Gatorade created a sport institute that successfully influenced the sport industry into thinking that we must drink (their) beverages otherwise we will cramp.
50Nk TIL On a trip to China, Prince Philip joked to students that “If you stay here much longer, you’ll go slit-eyed.” After initial concerns of offense, Chinese officials responded that they also warned their students of going “round-eyed” when studying abroad.“
j6dlp TIL about Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier during WW2 that was conscripted to fight for Japan, was then captured and forced to fight by the Russians, and then again captured and forced to fight for the Germans at Normandy. He was then finally captured by the Allies and sent to the US.
PYyDE TIL that when David Attenborough's series "Blue Planet II" aired in 2017, so many Chinese fans downloaded the programme on the country’s online Tencent Video channel that the internet in China temporarily slowed down