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TIL the international reactions and events around the US invasion of Grenada were strikingly similar to the Russian invasion of Crimea.

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gMAX TIL that ‘The Lion King’ was originally supposed to be titled 'The King of the Jungle’. The reason they changed it is because they learned that lions don’t actually live in the jungle, they live in the savannah.
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