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TIL In 2021, a 4 year old Giant Panda at a Belgian Zoo escaped from his enclosure and then attacked his keeper at the staff-restricted area.

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R5m7 TIL that during filming of Schindler’s List, a survivor of the concentration camp in Płaszów Poland met actor Ralph Fiennes, who played Nazi captain Amon Goeth; she began to shake uncontrollably at the sight of him because he was so convincing; Goeth was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths
bLD4 TIL Refrigerators have magnetic doors largely because many children suffocated to death in refrigerators with locks.
LkXMZ TIL when the first time a mile was run in under four minutes, the announcer was drowned out by the roar of the crowd when he said "The time was three..."
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.
wooZP TIL about the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, an intertwined series of conflicts that took place between 1639 and 1653 in the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland – separate kingdoms which had the same king, Charles I.