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TIL Burt Ward (Robin from the 1960's Batman TV show) owns a dog food company called Gentle Giants and also runs a rescue centre that has saved over 15,500 dogs to date.

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gMoP4 TIL that when a critic insulted the nudity in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, the painter punished him by painting the critic's likeness onto the body of Minos, the judge of the underworld; he then further insulted the critic by giving the likeness donkey ears and having a snake bite his genitals.
mNdy TIL Martian sunsets are blue
Brw4x TIL that Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Benito Mussolini were all reported to have not simply disliked cats, but actually feared them.
Z8av TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast over their song “Rosa Parks”, and that it went to the Supreme Court.
wLmWJ TIL actress Daveigh Chase voiced both Lilo in 'Lilo and Stitch' and Chihiro in 'Spirited Away' the same year each movie was nominated for an Oscar, with 'Spirited Away' winning.