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TIL There are more statues of lions in the world than there are real lions.

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OoOxa TIL Van Gogh's The Starry Night actually includes the planet Venus in the night sky depiction
rRpVy TIL that a man was milled by a mute swan. After getting too close to a nest, the male swan knocked the man out of a kayak and actively blocked the man from swimming to shore.
oBkLr TIL that the reason Source is referred to as Sauce is because of Eminem's 2003 diss track on the Source Magazine (Owner Ray Benzino) called "The Sauce"
GAo05 TIL that in 1909, a toy company came up with a challenge to the popular teddy bear- Billy Possum, a stuffed possum. They were initially popular but the fad died in less than a year.
GYb1Q TIL of Masanobu Tsuji, a Japanese war criminal who executed POWs on Bataan, fled to Indochina, and disappeared into Laos in 1961. He was later rumored to be working for North Vietnam. A CIA report said he was "the type of man who would start World War III without any misgivings."