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TIL that dinosaurs may have danced like birds to woo mates

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l7vXK TIL the descendants of Moctezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, are members of the Spanish nobility
5Y7MB TIL in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", in newspaper reports about the fraudulent "winner" of the fifth golden ticket in Paraguay, the man pictured is real-life Nazi Martin Bormann; the joke by the director was that he had fled like many other Nazis to South America.
VxlB TIL King Henry VIII was once arrested and then imprisoned for assaulting a police constable with his walking stick. When the police constable was informed he had jailed the King of England, he feared execution; instead he was commended by Henry VIII for his dedication to duty.
DJ4e TIL that as a 16 year old Ronda Rousey was a moderator of a Pokémon forum, and her username was mew182.
Oo8Ja TIL Daler Mehndi, the man behind the Tunak Tunak Tun song is currently serving a 2-years prison sentence for human trafficking.