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TIL Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic Snowboarder for Canada, is now on the FBI 10 most wanted list

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RBla TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi party member who is credited for saving 250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanking Safety Zone.
00n1 TIL Elvis Presley did not write the song Hound Dog. The original song was performed by an artist called Big Mama Thornton
9wPVQ TIL Orson Welles once accidentally pelted his audience with arrows. Welles was doing Henry the Fifth in Boston and had set the archers to shoot offstage, but it was a rotating stage. Welles had noticed the problem but expected the Harvard students to not foolishly shoot into the crowd, he was wrong.
5Yo4P TIL on 1642, Sir John Denham asked Charles I to spare Sir William Waller from execution, saying that "while Wither lives, Denham will not be the worst poet in England."
8rwG TIL that for Easter in the Czech Republic, men use braided willows to whip women’s buttocks. Said women then thank the men for ensuring their beauty and vitality, and reward them with chocolate or a shot of plum brandy.