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TIL, In 1731, the Dey of Algiers presented King Frederick I of Sweden with a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia. When the lion died, the king sent it to a taxidermist. However, because he had never seen a lion before the taxidermy was poorly performed, resulting in a comically deformed face

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