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TIL lebanese star Mia Khalifa has been received death threats, including having her head cut off for doing porn

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Nk1b TIL that Ottoman sultan Mehmed II. was 21 when he conquered Constantinople, was reputed fluent in several languages, including Turkish, Serbian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Greek and Latin and had an affair with the younger brother of Vlad Drăculea, the literary model for the Bram Stoker’s Dracula
e0wO4 TIL that a pianist named Reginald Dwight was touring with a band called Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. They laughed at him when he told them he was adopting the stage name of Elton John.
gMWeA TIL that a 2016 study found that the Thunder Mountain roller coaster at Disney World reliably makes people pass kidney stones.
L1Jm TIL that an Australia bushranger escaped from prison so many times the government had to build a special cell to hold him. It was so strong they promised to forgive his crimes if he could escape again.
OGbG6 TIL In Chinese mythology weretigers also known as tiger demons exist but unlike werewolves (who are humans who can shapeshift into a wolf) they are actually tigers who shapeshift into humans and if you are killed by one of them you aren't able to reincarnate and they will enslave your spirit