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TIL Canada has specifically banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering the country.

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6EgMW TIL there is an Asian Elephant sanctuary in Thailand for elephants that have been subject to cruelty by bad owners. Some are driven to exhaustion when used for logging, others are tortured to subdue them to become tame for tourist rides.
Zpvea TIL after his death, SS Nazi Josef Mengele was never buried. His skeleton was used as an educational aid for medical students at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
Z86oD TIL: The most common type of vertigo is caused by crystals (that sense gravity) becoming dislodged from a gelatin area inside the inner ear.
J1mEV TIL that British actor Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) would apologize to his co-star Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) while filming their scenes because of the awful behavior of his character; Dinklage was (according to Dance) the "most adorable man"
6OPY TIL Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton, wrote an entire song in the Huttese language from Star Wars. It was the song that played in Maz’s Kantina in The Force Awakens.