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TIL the will of P.L. Travers (writer of Mary Poppins) specifically forbid all future American adaptions of her work

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VBOO4 TIL Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is exactly the way it was on April 4th, 1968, complete with bed and food tray, when Martin Luther King was shot. Room 306 was never rented again and preserved as The National Civil Rights Museum
LY8p TIL there was a cloning project to revive the extinct Pyrenean Ibex, which resulted in a female being cloned back into existence. However, it died 7 minutes later, making the species extinct again.
rKEW TIL The death of the pope used to be confirmed by hitting him in the head with a silver hammer.
GY6pJ TIL in the early 20th century a single man-eating tiger killed an estimated 436 people in Nepal and northern India over several years, until it was finally shot by a lone hunter
6EoAm TIL that in 1504, Christopher Columbus used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to intimidate Jamaica natives into giving them their supply of food after they refused to, but fooled them saying his god is all-powerful and will make the moon disappear for he was displeased with their refusal.