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TIL After the scene where Margot Robbie has sex with Leonardo DiCaprio on a pile of money in 'Wolf of Wall Street', Robbie ended the scene with her back covered in paper cuts from the fake money they used

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mx95p TIL that Jimmy Boyd's I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in Boston when it was released on the grounds that it mixed kissing with Christmas. Boyd was photographed meeting with the Archdiocese to explain the song. After the meeting, the ban was lifted.
mxX5M TIL that the 1981 film Roar used real lions during filming, resulting in at least 70 cast and crew being injured. A crew member was scalped, another had his throat bitten out, and and much of the footage of attacks was used in the final cut of the film. The blood seen in the movie is real.
GA1pG Today I learned about Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr, the first black Marine Corp Aviator and General. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Peterson being promoted to brigadier general in 1979. The navy currently has a Arleigh-Burke class destroyer named after him the ship's motto is "Into the Tiger's Jaw!"
gMQxX TIL of Chevalier d'Éon - a French spy, dragoon and ambassador who had lived life both as man and woman. Their autopsy indicated they were intersex, and presented masculine in their early life for sake of inheritance.
rRXrW TIL in 2016, a gorilla named Harambe was shot dead by some cops in the Cincinnati zoo after an three year old go fell into his enclosure. Harambe did not harm the boy but was stilled killed for some reason.