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TIL that for the first time since 1967, new Tom and Jerry shorts are being produced on Cartoon Network.

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b5Ma TIL in 1992 a youth group descended into a French cave with steel brushes to remove graffiti… and ended up partially removing 15,000 year old bison cave paintings.
4XgX6 TIL that as a white belt, Paul Walker told his BJJ coach that he would get his black belt "even if he needed to get it in his coffin", shortly after Walker's death, that same coach awarded Walker his black belt and told his father he could put it in his coffin.
6W4Q TIL French Queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functioning peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
bdB7 TIL Mao Zedong, in a power-play against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in 1958, forced him to conduct a meeting in a pool. 200+ pound Khrushchev, who could not swim, was forced to wear floaters in the kiddie side of the pool while Mao swam laps and conducted the meeting.
l11K TIL Denzel Washington subjected himself to being waterboarded for his role in the film, “Safe House”