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TIL that The Lego Movie was the first ever feature film with Wonder Woman in it

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nD6d TIL there is a High School football coach who never punts and always does onside kicks. He has won 4 state titles doing this.
x9Bo TIL in 1986 Glasgow renamed the street of the Apartheid controlled South African consulate to Nelson Mandela Place which meant all of their correspondence had to contain the name of the political prisoner.
R7164 TIL that Japan's Air Force dropped massive amounts of ceramic bombs filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas in Ningbo, China during WW2
96jX TIL it’s said that when Napoleon claimed to have the power to destroy the Catholic Church, a cardinal responded, “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”
nwod TIL that with each degree of temperature rise, violence increases by up to 20%