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TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't been part of Planet Hollywood since 2000

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yQdgV TIL That after he was knighted, Terry Pratchett made a sword for himself, partially out of meteorites. He wanted to equip himself for his new status. With the help of a friend, He gathered the ore from a field near his home and smelted it in a makeshift kiln. He then took the bars to a blacksmith.
kOAje TIL of the Einstein Cross. It's a quasar directly behind a galaxy and due to gravitational lensing, it appears as 4 images of the quasar around the galaxy
Q6AL TIL that, unlike most bronze sculptures of Roman emperors, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius was not melted down during the Middle Ages because Europeans of that time thought it was a statue of Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome.
x6bL0 TIL Leon Trotsky was killed with an ice axe, an axe used for climbing icy mountains, not an axe made out of ice
dDZNr TIL about Manichaeism, a former major religion founded in the 3rd century by the Iranian prophet Mani. At its peak, it was one of the most widespread religions on Earth. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far as China to the Roman Empire. It was briefly a main rival to early Christianity.