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TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead
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TIL during the filming of A Clockwork Orange Malcolm McDowell suffered cracked ribs when an actor kicked him in the chest; almost drowned when his head was held underwater; and got a scratch in the cornea of his eye. Kubrick said.“Let’s carry on, I’ll favor your other eye”
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TIL An Ohio judge once sentenced a woman to sit in the "stinkiest, smelliest" area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, as punishment for neglecting her dog. "If you puke, you puke."
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TIL that in 2021 more than 1/3 of the shark attacks in the world occurred in Florida and, of the attacks in Florida, more than 1/2 occurred around Daytona Beach.
6xkw
TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.
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TIL: While in office, President Jimmy Carter had to physically defend himself from a rabbit.