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XEZYr TIL about Thurl Ravenscroft, the man who voiced Tony the Tiger in the Frosted Flakes commercials ("They're g-r-r-r-eat!") and was the uncredited singer of the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch".
ZBXa TIL that Merlin the Wizard was possibly based on the legend of a real person, Myrddin Wyllt, a bard who went crazy watching the defeat and slaughter of his Celtic King Gwenddoleu and his army, and spent the rest of his life in the forest living among animals as a madman.
OokO4 TIL about The Tomb of the Whipping, an etruscan tomb dated to approximately 490 BC and named after a fresco of two men who flog a woman in an erotic context
oRYVE TIL that North Korea was the first Asian country to ever advance to the second round of the FIFA World Cup
O144 TIL - A family has been carving a 64 story Crazy Horse memorial out of a South Dakota mountain for 70 years