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oRnKL TIL In 1988 the Polar Bridge Expedition, a group of 13 people, successfully skied from Siberia to Canada
ebk4 TIL “bald-faced lie” and “bold-faced lie” are both correct; the original phrase is “barefaced lie,” but ‘bare’ meant brave or bold at the time.
GYaXQ TIL of Tilly Bébé, a circus performer famous for her taming of large predators. She was small and dressed like a doll while performing with hyenas, lions and even groups of 40 polar bears. Silent footage of her life with the animals helped pioneer a new "exotic-erotic-escapist" genre of film.
p4g8 TIL that Lord Walter Rothschild, an immensely wealthy banker and zoologist, drove a carriage harnessed to six zebras regularly to prove that zebras could be tamed.
JpmV TIL that Michael Jordan still earns a reported $60 million a year from Nike