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TIL “The Mountain” from GoT forced himself onto his ex in order to prove that he didn’t cheat on her

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R7GG9 TIL that for the 2015 Chinese film "Wolf Totem", 35 Mongolian wolves were trained in China for over 4 years by a Scottish trainer, who trained them to sit, snarl, and fight on cue. After filming, the wolves were ultimately relocated to Canada, since they only understood commands in English
gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.
b97r7 TIL the only band to turn down touring with David Bowie was the one and only Kraftwerk in 1976.
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.
LkZQ9 TIL that in fall of 2018, Starbucks’ coffee was found to have connections to forced labor plantations where workers were subject to debt bondage and unsafe working conditions. This was 8 months after they were named one of the World’s Most Ethical companies for the 12th year in a row.