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TIL the current Dalai Lama was formally recognized in 1939 and has reigned since 1940

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jNpKv TIL Bill Murray did his own version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was called Where the Buffalo Roam in 1980.
j6PVn TIL Gerry Rafferty, famous for the song Baker Street and stuck in the middle with you with Steelers Wheel, was once in a folk-pop duo with famous Scottish comedian Billy Connolly .
nelpr TIL that the famous female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny discovered each others' real genders (they were disguising themselves as men) when Bonny told Read that she was attracted to her, causing Read to reveal herself as a female as well
rRxN1 TIL that Porgs were included in Star Wars because they had no way of getting rid of all the puffins when they were filming in Ireland
Oomd4 TIL about Thomas Aikenhead who, at 20 years of age, became the last person executed in Great Britain on a charge of blasphemy. Aikenhead was accused of referring to theology as "ill-invented nonsense" while conversing with friends at the University of Edinburgh.