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TIL the design of The Master from the Brave Little Toaster was based on future Lion King Director, Rob Minkoff

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Bwbd TIL A remote African Tribe donated cattle to the US after learning about 9/11
4xxo TIL that Wales’ national symbol is a leek because on the eve of the battle against the Saxons, St David advised the Britons to wear leeks in their caps so as to easily distinguish friend from foe. This helped to secure a great victory.
VMr48 TIL Karl Marx was born into a well-to-do family, the son of a lawyer, he went to the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married Jenny von Westphalen, who was part of the Prussian aristocracy and German nobility.
XELJX TIL Pluto didn't get to complete a single orbit around the sun until it was demoted to no longer being a planet. It was discovered on February 18, 1930 and takes 248.09 Earth years to go one time around the sun.
lWka TIL about Thalaikoothal, the ritual euthanasia of the elderly by forced consumption of water until renal failure still practiced in the Tamil state in India