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TIL that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a prequel not a sequel

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LxZ0 TIL that Peter III, ruler of Russia, hanged a large rat in public because it had eaten his toy soldiers. Peter was age 25.
8a0nK TIL American architect Henry Murphy was in charge of designing the capital of China in 1928. Murphy proposed a master plan for Nanjing at the heart of which lay an axis with the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, along with ‘Capitol Hill’ and a pagoda
VML80 TIL that Hokusai, the artist behind the famous 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', illustrated a series of shunga erotica called 'Dreams of the Fisherman's Wife' which includes vivid depictions of women having sex with octopus. Published in 1814
689w TIL One of the “cures” for the Bubonic Plague was to fart in a jar and smell it.
xl6g TIL: Dave Chappelle got his TV career started by making a guest appearance on ABC’s popular 90’s sitcom, Home Improvement