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TIL all the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy

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NXj48 TIL that of Disney’s top films of all time (Frozen, Little Mermaid, Tangled, etc.), almost all of them are adaptations of Hans Christian Anderson or Brothers Grimm. Disney has archives of unpublished Anderson inspired projects in storage they are prepared to pull from to create future films
4kgNg TIL that Wat Misaka (b. 1923 - d. 2019), a second-generation Japanese American was the first non-white professional basketball player and the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, known back then as the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
kRA1 TIL that before Joseph Stalin ruled Russia he performed bank robberies to fund the communist cause
5Gjn TIL of Aoshima, a Japanese island where cats outnumber humans 6 to 1.
rN9jy TIL that game-jump site is a cliff where native Americans would lure big game, such as Buffalo, to, in order to kill them without weapons. They would fall to their death, and the tribe would collect the meat