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TIL Killer Whales don't attack/eat people and the deaths caused by Orcas in captivity might have been caused by "playing too rough" or "stress".

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Oovxa TIL During WWII Ronald Reagan, then a captain in the First Motion Picture Unit producing training films for the US Air Force, obtained a film reel depicting the liberation of Auschwitz. He held on to it, believing doubts would someday arise as to whether the Holocaust had really happened
Jnj8 TIL that the original script for Good Will Hunting contained a scene in which Robin Williams gives Stellan Skarsgård a blowjob. This was because Damon and Affleck knew studio execs never read scripts and the scene wasn’t mentioned until Harvey Weinstein read it thinking it was hilarious
P1Pdw TIL about Hatshepsut, the greatest female pharaoh of Egypt. She expanded Egyptian trade routes and oversaw ambitious building projects, most notably the Temple of Deir el-Bahri. Hatshepsut remained largely unknown to scholars until the 19th century.
xJOk TIL the last man to be executed by firing squad in the USA asked for a bulletproof vest as his last wish
j6LXX TIL that in the 19th century, a common treatment for syphilis was to flush the vagina or urethra with mercury.