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TIL: The Lord of the Rings is presented as a translation of a book originally written in Westron, the common speech of Middle-earth. Therefore, Frodo Baggins' real name in Westron is Maura Labingi.

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p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.
yQEyl TIL of Maximilian I of Mexico, an Austrian archduke and the only Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire. Installed by France as a pro-French monarch, he reigned from 1864-1867, after which he was executed by the Mexican Republic.
jkQp TIL Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first ever motion pictures, disappeared without a trace in 1890. Thomas Edison soon took credit as the first and sole inventor of cinema, and even took Le Prince’s son to court to dispute it. Few years later, the son also died under mysterious circumstances.
d87g8 TIL Da Vinci discovered that severing the spinal column of a frog resulted in instant death. But it seems he felt disturbed by hurting living things, stopped working on live animals, and became a vegetarian. In fact, he loved animals so much that he would buy birds at the market and let them go.
0dEG1 TIL There are two moons in the solar system that have clouds, Saturn's moon Titan and Neptune's moon Triton.