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TIL that the terms “left wing” and “right wing” date back to the French Revolution in 1789

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XmrD TIL Prince Eric from “The Little Mermaid” is the only Disney prince who does not sing in his film.
9x4r TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.
78LOp Til that workers in every canadian province earn less than workers in the US.
9Xg6 TIL There is a poem called “The Lost Generation” by Jonathan Reed that when read one way speaks negatively about a generation and when read backwards has the exact opposite effect.
6E87Y TIL that due to the threat of a one million dollar budget overage Warner Bros. Studio gave up production of the film 'Home Alone' to 20th Century Fox. The film went on to gross 300 million dollars, shattering box office records of the time.