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TIL during the production of the 2008 film, The Reader, the filmmakers delayed filming the sex scenes between 17-year-old David Kross and Kate Winslet until the former turned 18.

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l7PeK TIL that there has been one Archbishop of Canterbury to have killed while in office. In 1621, Archbishop George Abbot accidentally shot a gamekeeper while hunting, which greatly traumatized him for the rest of his church career.
9vZM TIL: An orangutan named Sibu at a zoo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands rejected all attempts made for him to mate with female orangutans. He only exhibited sexual interest in his human female caretakers with a particular penchant for the blonde ones with tattoos.
nDrP TIL there are tilted windows in Vermont called “witch windows”. The name appears to come from a superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through the tilted windows.
Z81jp TIL Sir David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for a program in black & white, color, HD, 3D, and 4K.
KBKa TIL the bible mentions unicorns 9 times.