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TIL that upon its release, twister was referred to as “sex in a box” by critics.

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OXM1 TIL an Alabama school tried to ban ‘The Diary of A Young Girl’ by Anne Frank in 1983 because, according to the board’s records, it was “a real downer.”
xVQb5 TIL butterflies do not only feed on nectar, but also feed on mud, urine and decaying flesh.
JVgm TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’
ADm94 TIL of the Anti-Bolshevik League incident. Eventual CCP leader Mao Zedong had 120 political opponents arrested, 17 were murdered. It resulted in another communist army unit revolting, believing Mao was trying to kidnap fellow leaders Zhu De, Peng Dehuai and surrender to the nationalist KMT
J1JDk TIL that in 1691, a Swedish farmhand was executed for having sexual intercourse with a mountain-nymph