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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci would buy animals at the market just to set them free, in the name of animal rights.

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a8M1A TIL Winston Churchill would attend Shakespeare plays and recite the lines along with the actors from the front row. Richard Burton, playing Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre, tried to shake Churchill by changing the speed of his delivery, but Churchill stayed with him the whole way.