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TIL That Jamie Lee Curtis is a Baroness (styled The Right Honourable The Lady Haden-Guest).

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Pp0g TIL Tilikum the “Killer Whale” developed a neurological psychosis from being held in isolated captivity for most of his life. He lived in two different water parks where he killed multiple trainers. Both corporations withheld the truth about the incidents, allowing trainers to continue performances.
GZR5 TIL after the courtesan Leæna (whose name means lioness) refused to reveal the name of the conspirators that tried to kill the Athenian tyrant Hippias under torture, the Athenians erected a tongueless lioness statue in her memory and placed lionesses next to statues of Aphrodite.
ejnb TIL that it would/does cost the US government less money to provide homes to the homeless than it does to leave them on the street.
rN6Oo TIL The French conquest of Algeria lasted over 70 years, and five separate French governments. In the end as much as a third of Algeria's population was killed in the decades of invasions.