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TIL Russell Crowe was once contacted by the FBI about Al Qaeda wanting to kidnap him to take “iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan.” Russel Crowe isn’t American though. He’s originally from New Zealand.

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W74VB TIL that in 1990s China, Pizza Hut customers turned “one-trip” salad bars into engineering feats. Using cucumber walls, dense cores of beans or carrots, and alternating layers of lettuce, fruit, and meat, they built towering salads that defied gravity-leading Pizza Hut to ban salad bars entirely.
1aNoP TIL magpie birds in Australia regularly swoop-attack cyclists and walkers who get too close to their nests. Thousands of attacks happen annually, mostly a nuisance but also causing hundreds of injuries. In 2018, a toddler sitting in a stroller was almost blinded by a magpie attacking his face.
Eg9kx TIL of the Jefferson Bible, a de-miracalised version of the gospels created by Thomas Jefferson — that just had the morals and life of Jesus Christ. A copy was presented to new members of Congress from 1904 until the 1950s.
oBvrE TIL Conan the barbarian is part of the Marvel comics universe and could potentionally be part of the cinematic universe, his world was created when Atlantis sunk and was later forgotton when Thor and Hercules arrived on earth
VM4MB TIL Robert A Heinlein challenged readers' possible racial preconceptions by writing strong, sympathetic characters, only to reveal later that they are of African or other ancestry.