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TIL that the character King Julian from Madagascar was only meant to have a couple of lines, until they cast Sacha Baron Cohen and rewrote the script because his recordings were so funny.

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4X7a6 TIL that a mummified arm hangs on the wall of a church in Prague. While attempting to steal some jewels from the church, a thief became stuck and his arm had to be amputated. The arm, which is about 400 years old, was hung from a meat hook as a warning and it's been there ever since.
9WXM TIL - Aluminum foil starts out as an 8 ton block that’s rolled down gradually until it yields 8 miles of foil
P4GZ TIL the more sexual encounters a man has the more likely he is to have positive views of women
mxy0M TIL about Sir Henry Head, a victorian English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation returned over time.
xVLND TIL according to an autopsy report an Alabama minister who died of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” in his home, was found hogtied, wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, a head mask, and had a dildo in his anus covered with a condom