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TIL a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia because it tells kids that “spiders can’t hurt you”

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Lk9wP TIL that Heath Ledger initially did not take any of his roles seriously until he watched some of his films and realized that he would not want to see any of them. This inspired him to be more cautious in his choices, and he actually met with Nolan about playing Batman before being cast as the Joker.
W7yRL TIL Swooping season in a thing in Australia, with over 4000 annual incidents of magpies attacking humans to defend their nests, and common solutions including strapping helmets to your kids on their way to school
7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
8gXV TIL they never found “bath salts” in the toxicology reports for the Miami Cannibal attack, leaving the ultimate cause of his behavior unknown.
16kJd TIL Bruce Timm, creator and producer of Batman: The Animated series and many other DC comic animation projects, released two artbooks full of erotic drawings titled "Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm" and "The Big Tease: A Naughty and Nice Collection"