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TIL memes mocking famous people are banned in Russia

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rRgG0 TIL King Richard Lionheart had more than two thousand Muslim prisoners of war from the captured city of Acre beheaded in front of the Ayyubid armies of sultan Saladin on 20 August 1191.
d87P8 TIL the WWE is staged - completely scripted
7rOkP TIL one of Nirvana's most controversial performances was in 1993 at the Hollywood Rock Festival in São Paulo, after playing rough versions of their songs, they swapped instruments to play a set of badly rehearsed covers while they were booed by the audience and ended the show by demolishing the gear
epWBE TIL that boxer Muhammad Ali was also an accomplished musician. He released the Grammy-nominated and American Dental Association approved album "The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay" in 1976.
Gdv5 TIL that an acronym is if you pronounce letters in the abbreviation as if they were a word. If you read the letters in the abbreviation individually, they are called “initialisms”