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TIL Disney’s Aladdin was originally set in Baghdad. Director John Musker: “We kept it Baghdad in our first treatment, and then the Gulf War happened—the first Gulf War. Roy Disney said, ‘This can’t be in Baghdad.’ So, I took letters and did a jumbled anagram and came up with Agrabah.”

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nearG TIL most vegetables retain more nutrients from microwaving than any other form of cooking, and therefore microwaving is the healthiest way to cook your veggies
nZ47 TIL: Engineers have created a chemical coating that causes cotton materials to clean themselves of stains and remove odors when exposed to sunlight.
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E1xkx TIL that half of the 12 men who've walked on the moon still are alive, youngest is Charles Duke at 82, oldest is Buzz Aldrin at 87.