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TIL John Ratzenberger is the only actor to voice a character in every Pixar film

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m1RNO TIL that the can-can was originally considered scandalous, and attempts were made to suppress it and arrest performers. The dance involves high kicks, and women’s underwear at the time had an open crotch.
OGDV1 TIL Mia Frye was responsible for choreographing the dance routine in the music video for the hit song "Macarena"
9x4r TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.
oPXR TIL literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write “Kim Il-Sung”
8ag7Z TIL 26-yr-old Henry David Thoreau accidentally set fire to over 300 acres of forest where he was to build his famous Walden Pond shack when he & his buddy failed to beat back flames from the fire they set to cook fish they'd caught. Townsfolk called Thoreau a “damned rascal” & “a flibbertigibbet.”