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TIL that Bert Lahr's "Cowardly Lion" costume in The Wizard of Oz was made from real lion skin

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vjAK TIL that when a google employee dies their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children receive 1,000 dollars per month until they’re at least 19
kJk05 TIL that the most successful pirate in history was a woman from China named Ching Shih. She commanded the largest fleet that nations couldn’t copy in numbers. She was a former prostitute who married a pirate that immediately considered her his equal & held massive control of the South China Sea.
d8V8Z TIL The PS2 game, Katamari Damacy, holds a US patent for "how the game maintains the roughly spherical nature of the katamari when objects are picked up".
b8Aa TIL that, according to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path to conceal where Gengis Khan was finally buried.
XE8D6 TIL of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was murdered in 1982 by two laid-off auto workers. Blaming the increasing popularity of Japanese cars in America for their redundancy, and the US' auto industry struggles, the men assumed Chin was Japanese, and beat him to death in a nightclub.