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TIL That George Miller raised the money to make Mad Max by working as an ER doctor

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X0XkQ TIL Cassowaries are the largest native vertebrate in the Australian rainforests! And a bonus: Sept 26 is World Cassowary Day!
neDZ9 TIL that Saddam Hussein was forced to watch his cameo in South Park repeatedly while in prison. The creators of the show were given a signed photo of him afterwards
ELeo TIL - Friedrich Nietzsche held a pessimistic view on modern society and popular culture. He believed the press and mass culture led to conformity and brought about mediocrity resulting in a lack of intellectual progress, leading to the decline of the human species..
R5Ndj Til about Prester John, the mythical Christian King who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. Today, it is believed this Chrstian country may have been Ethopia.
J1g0v TIL that a Canadian citizenship ceremony had to be delayed when the queen died, because they didn't know who they were swearing an oath to.