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TIL in the scene in Inglorious Bastards where Dianne Kruger is being strangled it was actually Quentin Tarantino choking her out because he thinks that fake strangling never looks real in movies.

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b5YE TIL Alexander the Great once organized an Olympic Games to honor a dead religious leader. However, since the Indians weren’t familiar with Greek sport, he opted for a wine-drinking contest instead. 41 contestants died and the winner lived for just four days after his victory.

Rr01 TIL Female Komodo Dragons can enter isolated islands, lay fertilized eggs without male sperm through a process called ‘parthenogenesis,’ and then subsequent male and female hatchlings can go on to reproduce amongst each other to create entire new populations of Komodo dragons

NBaN TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally a college project done by Craig McCracken known as the “Whoopass Girls”. Instead of Chemical X, the Professor gave them an open “Can of Whoopass”.

LQDpp TIL that Jeremy Renner (best known for his role as Hawkeye in the MCU) worked as a Makeup Artist early on in his career

v1KPK TIL London's "Continuum Magazine," which for years promoted the idea that HIV was a social construct created to stigmatize gays, shut down after all its editors died of AIDS.