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TIL Ancient peoples in the Middle East and India tamed Cheetahs and trained them to ride horses.

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7r5Mr Today I Learned that the image of Smokey the Bear undergoes more enforced regulation than the American flag. This is not hyperbole, the US government has to give explicit permission for anyone to have a costume, and does not allow Smokey The Bear to be depicted in any way that is demeaning to him.
ANN4g TIL The subtitle for the 1880 novel Ben Hur is A Tale of the Christ. The movie poster for the 1959 film had "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents A Tale of the Christ".
yQPbJ TIL The Navajo Nation Reservation is bigger than the state of West Virginia by almost 2 million acres
JGL4 TIL German archaeologists at Herxheim discovered 7,000 y/o mass graves containing at least 500 people who were ritually butchered and eaten by an unknown cannibalistic culture as part of a “…standard, repetitive, and strongly ritualised practice.”
nenGd TIL that in 1993, lawyer Garry Hoy attempted to show that the windows in a building were nearly unbreakable by running into one at full speed. The window was knocked out of its frame and Hoy fell with it to his death. However, the window did not break.