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TIL that Christopher Lloyd played Uncle Fester in the Addams Family in 1991 and 1993

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VMrDB TIL that in the Middle Ages it was believed that lion cubs were born dead and their father resurrected them with his breath after three days.
nQrr TIL Mark Twain, noted abolitionist and women’s rights activist, paid for the schooling of black people, including paying one man’s tuition for Yale Law School.
b1l4 TIL of ‘Genie’, a child who was kept in a blacked out room by her father for the first 13 years of her life
JWYV TIL that a sentry assigned to guard Napoleon’s house in Austria did not recognise him and threatened to stab him with his bayonet. The next day, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by Napoleon for doing his job so well.
GAJJj TIL that, in 1933 the Canadian government intentionally destroyed 15 tonnes of documentation regarding residential school victims