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TIL when General Napier was asked to respect the Indian custom of burning widows on their husband’s funeral pyre, he replied it was English custom to hang murderers.

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5VXpk TIL in 2020 Marvel unveiled a promo for a new comic book starring all-new Gen-Z superheroes with names such as Screentime, Snowflake and Safespace. After a considerable amount of backlash from fans, the project was evidently scrapped and never mentioned again.
gvmX TIL that next year, the movie industry will stop producing physical film reels, but most drive ins are still not digital and the cost to upgrade is prohibitive. Honda is trying to save some theathers by donating digital projectors and taking votes on where they will go.
0B8L TIL the German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. 1 person spoke against it:Social Democratic leader Otto Wels, who spoke the last free words in the Reichstag:“You can take our lives & our freedom, but you cannot take our honor. We are defenseless but not honorless.”
D159g TIL that there is a grizzly bear in Canada named “The Boss” that has been known to have killed several black bears, hit by a train, and use human railways and highways to travel yet hasn’t been known be aggressive toward humans.
J17a8 TIL A German horse was taught math.. except it was later found that the horse had learnt to recognise human reactions to its answers and was just "counting up to the answer" until it got the right reaction