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TIL the salt flats of western India have a "Wild Ass Sanctuary", meant for the endangered "Indian wild ass".

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b9YK9 TIL after reading a translation of the Quran, Martin Luther was strongly against banning it, believing that it was better to tolerate Muslims and expose them to criticism.
9YLYr TIL about a glass bridge in China. Using special effects, whenever there was someone walking over it, the glass became "cracked" and everyone would freak out. Oh yea, and these glass bridges link tall mountains, so if you fall, you die.
yVnDM TIL about the Chamblee hostage incident, where a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid, believing Domino's "Noid" mascot was mocking him, took hostages in a restaurant with a gun in 1990.
ANXM4 TIL that the senior executive vice president of Tencent, David Wallerstein, has a prog metal band in which he plays guitar and sings, and goes by the pseudonym DarWin.
E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.