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TIL that after a 35-year ban on cinemas in Saudi Arabia, the first movie they showed after the ban was lifted was 'The Emoji Movie'

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XXJR TIL that a Cosplaying “Dark Elf” was arrested after he dropped acid and attacked a woman’s red BMW, mistaking it for Morgoth.
9wwl6 TIL that kookaburras are also known as laughing jackasses
1vY7 TIL the Buddha’s story appears in Christianity as the legend of St. Josaphat and in Islam as the legend of Budasaf.
awBKN TIL that during WW2 there was a saying that "It's more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe, than for Brazil to go the front and fight", so when Brazil joined the war, their troops became known as "Cobras Fumantes", or "the Smoking Snakes".
4Xngw TIL in 1915, during a historic drought, San Diego hired a “Rain Maker.” He took the job and soon thereafter there was so much rain that there were floods and a dam even broke. They didn’t pay him though. Too much rain.