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TIL of the Beauty and the Beast character Monsieur Toilette, who was flushed from the final edit of the film

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LPEm TIL Pixar Animation Director Andrew Gordon found a secret room connected to his office via a crawlable air duct. He turned it into a speakeasy that eventually entertained celebrity guests such as Steve Jobs, Buzz Aldrin, and Robert DeNiro.
xvNb TIL there is a hallucinogen originating from Africa called Ibogaine that is highly successful in treating heroin addiction by minimising the effects of withdrawal but it is illegal in most of the western world.
JY5x4 TIL that US homes today are 1,000 square feet larger than in 1973 and living space per person has nearly doubled
yn7X TIL the guy that ran against Hitler in the German Presidential Election of 1932 was arrested 1 year later, thrown into solitary confinement until 1944, and then shot on Hitlers order.
VPVZ TIL in 1861 a 43-day storm flooded northern and southern California for 6 months.