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TIL: In some parts of Africa, albinos are in danger because there’s a belief that body parts of them brings luck.

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aP0 TIL during the battle scenes in Braveheart, the extras who were members of the F.C.A., the Irish version of the territorial army, members of different companies took the chance to beat each other up during the filming which explains the realistic fighting
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