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TIL Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers hated the film Adaption of her book so much, she spent most of the premiere crying and refused to let Disney touch the rest of the series.

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Bg6Ne TIL in 2019, a 19-year-old man posed as a 14-year-old boy and got accepted into a British high school. He was asking girls out and changing with boys in PE before authorities discovered his true age.
Z8aDG TIL that there are walls in Scotland that people made during the Iron Age using heat to melt rocks together, but the specific methodology is unknown and continues to baffle scientists. They are the Vitrified Walls of Scotland but can be found in other European countries as well.
xVEV5 TIL that the real color of the sun is white. It just appears yellow to us due to earths atmosphere scattering the higher wavelengths of light.
4kL9g TIL about Alice in wonderland syndrome. A neurological condition in which one’s perception of their body image, time, or space is distorted. AIWS may also cause hallucinations, sensory distortion, and an altered sense of velocity.
Y7ZjZ TIL that The nucleus is very small compared to the size of the atom. As an analogy, if the atom where the size of a baseball stadium, then the nucleus would be smaller than a baseball, perhaps closer to the size of a ping pong ball. Most of atom is, in fact, empty space.