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TIL that many lion sanctuaries are actually fronts for canned hunting operations - by letting volunteers touch the animals, they make them easier to eventually kill.

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x6b5 TIL Churchill declared “Mr. President, I have nothing to hide from you” while standing naked in front of FDR.
k6JE TIL archaeologists excavating a Roman city found remains of close to 100 infants who were smothered and cast into a sewer that ran beneath a brothel. It believed infanticide was a widely used method of limiting family size in ancient Rome
oB8gr TIL Joe Rogan and Gerard Way (Lead singer for My Chemical Romance) are cousins.
m1kLo TIL that after the radio station KARW held a large Beatles bonfire to protest John Lennon's "We're more popular than Jesus" comment, only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and send the station temporarily off-air.
VlbD TIL That a pilot and a co-pilot never eat the same meal, incase 1 of the meals is contaminated.