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TIL Facebook lost about $700 billion in market capitalization after rebranding as Meta

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5YOjP 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.
6RPQ TIL that people in Japan celebrate Christmas with a KFC Bucket
OyZY TIL that nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar
neOx7 TIL about Edward St John, an Australian politician who threw away his political career in his maiden speech in 1967 when he took the opportunity to criticise his own party in order to restore the honour of a Naval Officer wrongly censured after a collision at sea.
W7eA8 TIL a pair of (otherwise) identical twins was conceived where one twin had Down syndrome and the other did not