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TIL the best way to transport a rhino is hung upside down from a helicopter.

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Y7KgG TIL the exact animation for the gummi bear song is out there to download for some reason
1algX TIL Cassandra Peterson revealed that she was scalded on over 35% of her body in a kitchen accident when she was one and a half years old. She said that she was teased at school over her scars and jokingly added that her Elvira costume "showed only the good bits"
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5VKmr TIL that in the 18th century, the anatomist Honoré Fragonard invented a technique to perfectly preserve flayed bodies and used it to make works of art out of genuine skinned human corpses.
5Y1Xk TIL that before Miguel de Cervantes wrote part one of Don Quixote at the age of 58, he lived in exile in Italy, fought in the battle of Lepanto where he lost the use of his left hand, was captured and ransomed by pirates, excommunicated by the church and was imprisoned for accounting irregularities.