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TIL that Zootopia is the second highest grossing original film of all time.

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j6KEX TIL The annual Saudi Camel Beauty Contest offers $66M in prizes to whomever enters the camel deemed the "most beautiful", however in 2021 40 contestants were ejected from the event for the use of Botox and other "artificial touch-ups"
5VnP8 TIL The Crown Prince of Albania once used a bazooka to defend himself from soldiers in Gabon.
xVa47 TIL of the Prince Rupert's Drop, created by dripping molten glass into cold water. Capable of shattering bullets on impact and withstanding the blow of a hammer, this "glass droplet" is characterized by its incredibly high residual stress.
J1yPv TIL Thanks to strict protection and management from Indian and Nepalese wildlife authorities, the greater one-horned rhino population now numbers 4,014 individuals. Once perilously close to extinction, numbering fewer than 100 individuals, the greater one-horned rhino was brought back from the brink
WOYL TIL that starting in 1988, the Harvard Medical School partnered with film and TV studios to insert the concept of the “Designated Driver” into popular consciousness. The project was a huge success.