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TIL lawyers from the Disney corporation denied a couple’s request to engrave Winnie Pooh on the gravestone of their stillborn child without paying royalties.

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XmZ8 TIL Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and wife Yukiko stayed up handwriting thousands of Visas for entering Japan to Jews in Lithuania as Nazis neared, saving 6,000 lives while disobeying bosses’ orders to do it
9LwM TIL The term “Sweet Death” refers to dying of hypothermia, because you feel an innocent desire to lie down and sleep. A certain feeling of wellness overcomes you. And with a sardonic ‘Mona Lisa’ smile on your face, you die.
nWjNB TIL that employees at N.A.S.A. smoked on average 29 cigarettes a day before the first moon landing.
R7BX7 TIL that a 99-million-year old fossilized Daddy Longlegs was found with an erection.
JVrQ TIL in the 1980s, Casablanca’s script was sent to major studios under its original title, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”. Some recognized the script but most did not. Many complained that the script was “not good enough.” Complaints were “too dated”, “too much dialog” and “not enough sex”.