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When thinking about lions, you might picture an African safari, but did you know that lions also live in India?

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4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.
9YNgG TIL that famous writer Art Buchwald wanted to join the United States Marine Corps during World War II but was too young to join without parental or legal guardian consent, so he bribed a drunk with half a pint of whiskey to sign as his legal guardian
axjb TIL that Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism were all formed in the 6th century BC. That century also gave us Pythagoras the philosopher, Xerxes I of Persia, and Sun Tzu, the author of “The Art of War”.
x64v7 TIL Arthur Conan Doyle Secretly Resented His Sherlock Holmes Character
x60p5 TIL that the song "Kids" by MGMT was one of the songs they wrote as a joke, which makes me a little sad, because it was one of my favorites.