Tiger King Facts That Will Make This Show Seem Even Crazier

Second Time

Believe it or not, this isn't the Tiger King's first documentary. The jungle cat enthusiast was featured in a BBC documentary known as Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets. The film was made back in 2011 and didn't expose the world to nearly enough Joe Exotic, so he was eager to get the limelight to himself when Goode came knocking. 

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  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • A relative of the T. rex stood just 3-feet tall.
  • Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.