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TIL that the leopard attack scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey involved a real leopard pouncing on a real person. Kubrick, despite being known for recording several takes of every shot, only recorded a couple takes to protect the actor and accepted that he wouldn't like the end result.

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yLpe TIL that Nepalese eye doctor, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, pioneered a surgical technique that restores eyesight without stitches in 5 minutes and has removed 100,000 cataracts from this procedure on poverty stricken people over his 30 year career.
GAo7J TIL of Idi Amin's full title: "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
QNQPd Til a boy in Pakistan cut his own hand when an imam asked 'Who among the crowd had stopped praying?'He misheard the question and raised his hand by mistake, But the crowd accused him of Blasphemy. So he went to his house, cut off his hand, put it on a plate, and gave it to the cleric.
OA04 TIL that in 2011 it was revealed that the US have a spy operation that manipulates social media (including sites like Reddit, incase you hadn’t already noticed….)
xVykw TIL About the Kogi people who are thought to be last surviving pre-Colombian culture past the Aztecs. Their high priests are chosen at birth and spend their first 9 years of life secluded in a cave in total darkness learning the ways of “Aluna”(Mother Earth). The cave is said to represent her womb