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TIL a man in Taiwan was mauled by a lion after he jumped into their enclosure with a bible in an attempt to convert them to Christianity.

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5VQJQ TIL that in "Maleficent", Angelina Jolie's own daughter had to play the younger version of Aurora, because they were unable to find any other young girl who wasn't too scared to go near Angelina in her Maleficent costume.
Pe8O TIL that within a few decades of the Magna Carta being put in place in England, Genghis Khan (founder of the Mongolian empire) implemented a very similar document into law, which among other things, protected the right to freedom of Religion
4MJ TIL Furbies didn’t really “learn” English, they just started speaking more of it over a per-determined amount of time.
yeXl TIL the Picasso painting, Le Rêve, presumably shows Pablo’s erect penis on the upturned face of his model
16MDW TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.