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OGVj1 TIL that Simeon II and the Dalai Lama, both currently alive, were heads of state during World War II.
J1yPv TIL Thanks to strict protection and management from Indian and Nepalese wildlife authorities, the greater one-horned rhino population now numbers 4,014 individuals. Once perilously close to extinction, numbering fewer than 100 individuals, the greater one-horned rhino was brought back from the brink
BrgpD TIL in the year 623 the Tuyuhun Kingdom lost the battle of Gansu because they were distracted by an erotic dance which caused more than 500 casualties.
d8lV7 TIL the human stomach is strong enough to corrode razor blades
x6mBo TIL that during the filming of "The African Queen" (1951) on location in Uganda, many of the cast and crew became ill. During the filming of a scene where Katharine Hepburn played an organ, the crew kept a bucket off camera so she could vomit into it between takes