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TIL that PETA prefers kill shelters (“open admission”) over no-kill shelters.

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1K07 TIL that Doctor Who star David Tennant fulfilled concert pianist’s dying wish by using his skull in a performance of Hamlet.
l7k0K TIL the Gilligan’s Island lagoon was a backlot pond at CBS/Radford Studio just ~½ mile from the Ventura Freeway, so traffic noise often held up filming, and after the show ended the lagoon sat on the lot until it was drained and paved over for parking in the mid-1990s.
AN1wg TIL Sisyphus, doomed to roll a boulder forever, wasn’t a victim - he was an evil manipulative king who killed guests and unhonourably cheated Death. His punishment was for his calculated cruelty, a way of saying, there you go, you beat death, enjoy your eternity.
yVPmV TIL Sperm Whales (The Largest Toothed Predators On Earth) Do Not Have Teeth In Their Upper Jaw But Sockets That Their Lower Teeth Fit Into.
ADa5g TIL: During the 1920 Olympics in Belgium a man who had just come third in the diving stole the official Olympic flag as a dare. He returned it 103 years old in the year 2000