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TIL that Lambert Wilson, the actor who played The Merovingian, is also a singer

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ow5Y TIL on the first day of Lent in the village of Brodilovo, Bulgaria, villagers practice ‘Dog Spinning.’ A dog is suspended above water on a rope. The dog is turned repeatedly in a given direction to wind the rope, then released so that it spins rapidly in the opposite direction as the rope unwinds.
xVrK5 TIL of the E/I or educational and informative standards that regulate the content of network television programming aimed at a youth audience, forcing networks to drop the classic Saturday morning cartoons.
wLOo8 TIL that the body has no normal internal temperature and that 98.6 Fahrenheit is a flawed number based on an antiquated study
Br4ke TIL that while mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, because they are descended from once-domesticated horses, they are actually feral horses.
XQOE TIL Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory(2005).