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Til During the 'Well of Souls' scene in Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark most of the Cobras were Legless Lizards.

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Meop8 TIL about the Chloe Cooley incident, in which a young black woman was seen being forced into a boat to be sold in 1793. This incident was observed by several witnesses, who then petitioned the Executive Council of Upper Canada, which eventually led to the passage of the Act Against Slavery, 1793.
JYje8 TIL that Bobbie, a Scottish Collie, was lost by his owners while they were in Indiana. He found his way home to Oregon, a distance of more than 2,500 miles, walking the entire way. His route was mapped out by the letters sent to his family by people who had sheltered and helped him on the way.
6EoXY TIL that in 1935 a recently caught tiger shark at a Sydney aquarium regurgitated a human arm. The police were able to identify the owner of the arm and launch a murder investigation.
gM514 TIL in Renaissance Italy courtesans were known as cortigiana or "courtier". These women were well-educated more so than women of nobility & simultaneously artists, dancers & singers. These women were often treated as equals to women of nobility.
5Mln TIL of the Rosenhan experiment: Sane people faked hearing voices to see if they would be accurately diagnosed. They weren’t. None of the subjects were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, though psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.