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TIL Edna Mode, the superhero costume designer in The Incredibles, is voiced by Brad Bird, the film's director. Bird voiced Edna during storyboarding sessions, after which the production team couldn't find an actress who could do the voice better than him.

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W7XQB TIL about a monument in Kyoto, Japan called Mimizuka (Ear Mound). Known as the city's least mentioned and most often avoided tourist attraction, it contains at least 68,000 noses severed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).
b9g64 TIL: The quote claiming that Neil Armstrong doesn't exercise because he believes that every human has a finite number of heartbeats is false. Neil did not subscribe to its thesis and only quoted the claim to disagree with it.
VMKaG TIL that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards and won four of them.
epWVb TIL that Margaret Chung, the first Chinese-American female physician, "adopted" over 1,500 soldiers. She treated them, cooked for them and gifted them jade Buddha figurines they wore around their necks.
4p1w TIL “mantra” is Sanskrit: man (think) tra (tool) -> “thinking tool”