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TIL that Buzz Lightyear was originally conceived as a "Dudley Do-Right" kind of character: dim-witted but cheerful and self-aware. He was then re-envisioned as an action figure who isn’t aware that he’s a toy, and who therefore takes his job as an Intergalactic Space Ranger quite seriously.

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6EWBW TIL that in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing colony in the world in which all women are given the right to vote.
pZGb TIL there is a giant softshell turtle that spends 95% of its life buried and motionless under river sand, surfacing just twice a day to take a breath.
E1ZGd TIL the world’s oldest pool of water was found 2 miles down a Canadian mineshaft and dated at ~2 billion years old. By observing the sulphate in the water, researchers were also able to confirm that single-celled organisms had inhabited the pool at some point.
nV1B TIL - According to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Goliath was 6'9", not 9'9"…
e0x5L TIL, on April 9th 2007, a theater filled with parents and their small children who were there to see 'The Last Mimzy' were accidentally shown 'The Hills Have Eyes 2', in which the beginning of the movie features a screaming, bruised, beaten, and bloodied woman delivering a deformed newborn