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TIL: Toy Story 2 was deleted twice. Once by accident.

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nWvB TIL it may be possible to colonize the three farthest gas giants with floating cities in their atmospheres.
8eaYa TIL that Goodyear created colored, light-up tires in the 1960s. However, it never made it into mass-production, one reason being that other drivers drove too dangerously whilst trying to look at the tires.
a8V4y TIL that the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, and was actually based on a similar Boy Scout movement that had began in England just a couple of years prior.
1ayAW TIL of the oldest human structure. Predating Mesopotamian civilization and Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Gobekli Tepe. Researchers determined a pillar (pillar 43) depicts a comet colliding with Earth over 10,000 years ago causing a millennia of global cooling.
GDvG TIL that at age 12, Laura Ingalls Wilder defended herself against a sexual advance with a knife, and that her editor later cut the scene from her book (p. 1, last ¼th)