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TIL that male dolphins have been known to keep females hostage and not feed them until the female agrees to have sex with them.

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8akKK TIL Of The Ma’nene Festival: An Odd Tradition Practiced in Indonesia Every Three Years where they dig up their deceased loved ones and dress them up in nice clothes. It’s believed to bring them good luck
Ka4 TIL The Beatles were originally supposed to voice the vultures in The Jungle Book
ANdRa TIL a British soldier in WWII escaped a German POW camp, stole an SS uniform, and came back to bust out 300 prisoners. The same guy who once stormed into battle with a longbow and a broadsword.
E1vRp TIL Neil Gaiman wrote the script for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film Princess Mononoke
VBB7G TIL that one person, an editorial cartoonist, popularised the modern forms of Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, as well as the symbols of the elephant & the donkey for the political parties.