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TIL: Africa, at 30,500 km of Coastline, Has Less Than Half of the EU’s 68,000 km Despite Being Three Times Larger

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vkvD TIL that Star Wars director George Lucas is a fan of Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy, and that MacFarlane stated that LucasFilm was “extremely helpful when tha Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.”
EglMP TIL the movie Malcolm X (starring Denzel Washington) only got completed because of donations from Oprah, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Bill Cosby, and Tracy Chapman. This was after Warner Bros refused to give Spike Lee any more money to finish the film
D1l6J TIL that in Moscow, packs of stray dogs will sometimes send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, apparently realising it will be more successful than its bigger, less attractive counterparts
N7Ww6 TIL during the Golden Age of Piracy, women sometimes became pirates by disguising themselves as men in an effort to take advantage of freedom and rights that men could only enjoy. Anne and Mary were two famous female pirates of that time who fell in love with each others' disguised manly appearance!
MeADa TIL that a chimpanzee community in Gombe National Park split into two factions and went to war with each other from 1974 to 1978. During the war, male chimps would team up to raid neighbouring territories and patrol the borders. If they found a lone chimp they would brutally kill them.