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TIL that soccer players walk out with kids because fans are less likely to throw things when kids are there. The kids also symbolize innocence and are good for PR

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0o7y TIL that Trey Parker initially thought that the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” would be the end of South Park’s positive reputation. The episode is considered one of the best by fans.
M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
4XNEb TIL the Nazis introduced malaria-carrying mosquitos to Italy in WW2 as revenge after Italy changed sides, causing a 7 year long outbreak in the region.
w05J TIL that Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s official title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
growD TIL that the Cuban macaw was traded and hunted by Native Americans, and by Europeans after their arrival in the 15th century. Many individuals were brought to Europe as cagebirds, and 19 museum skins exist today. No modern skeletons are known, but a few subfossil remains have been found on Cuba.