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TIL Val Kilmer had to go to therapy after he finished filming the doors because he couldn’t shake his Jim Morrison character

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064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
rbQ1 TIL that the largest cavalry charge in history occurred during the Turkish siege of Vienna. Spearheaded by 3000 winged knights, 20,000 Polish and German cavalrymen charged and routed the Ottoman line and decisively ended the Ottoman threat to christian Europe.
lomNa TIL that Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in South America, solely because Brazil so far out-populates the other Spanish-speaking countries
8anlb TIL ashtrays are mandatory in every plane, even if smoking isn't allowed, it is for safe disposal of the cigarette in case anyone on board breaks the law
Br66k TIL, a "holocaust" was a sacrificial religious ceremony practiced in ancient Judaism, wherein an animal was sacrificed to god, being entirely consumed by fire. The word is from a Greek translation of the Old Testament.