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TIL Aladdin is Chinese in the original text and the story takes place in China.

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1dMV TIL : There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated to English. “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute.” in English means “Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say.”
8a9kG TIL in 1994, Hulk Hogan's agent left a voicemail saying, "I’ve got a grill and I’ve got a blender, which one do you want to pick?" Hogan couldn't answer the phone because he was picking up his kids up from school so his agent offered the grill endorsement to another client, George Foreman.
wLmx1 TIL In the film Osmosis Jones, Bill Murray's character mentions a "National Chicken Wing Festival" in Buffalo, New York. While the festival did not exist during the filming of the movie, this mention caused organizers to create an annual festival in Buffalo which has been active now for 16 years.
OGMPY TIL there are only two U.S. mass school shooters from the past century who are alive and not incarcerated. That's because they were 11 and 13 at the time of the crime.
OAY7 TIL Cancún was made into a tourist destination in 1974 with the Mexican Government investing in 9 hotels. The population in 1970 was 3 people whereas the population in 2010 was 722,880.