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TIL a Japanese twitter user had his account permanently suspended for making a death threat against a mosquito

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woyK8 TIL that the directors of Tangled held a “hot man meeting” and had all the women from the studio critique Hollywood men to create the character of Flynn Rider
xVVW7 TIL that in WW2 China flooded the Yellow River intentionally to stop the advance of the Japanese troops
X0XmR TIL that there is an ancient ocean under the Appalachian Mts called the Iapetus Ocean that pre-dates the Atlantic Ocean and salt is harvested from it.
4LAo TIL that pencils are yellow because, in the 1890’s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.
nWjNB TIL that employees at N.A.S.A. smoked on average 29 cigarettes a day before the first moon landing.