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TIL in 1450, a pack of wolves invaded Paris and killed 40 people. The killing ended when a group of people banded together and stoned and speared the wolves to death in front of Notre Dame Cathedral

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Owve TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films
KB0G TIL the reason the epidemic was called the “Spanish flu” is because neutral Spain had no wartime censorship during WWI. The press was free to report on outbreaks in Seville and Madrid, and on the illness of King Alfonso VIII. The first outbreak may have actually been in Kansas.
7kWb TIL that Superman would have entered public domain on 1 January 2014 if copyright terms in the United States had not been extended in the late 1990s.
W7eKo TIL that in 2018, a 21 year old man in Germany was trying to win an argument with his friend to prove he could walk freely through Berlin wearing a Kippah. However, he ended up being attacked by a group of men.
MABa TIL Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe