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TIL that the Wizard of Oz (1939) popularized Green Witches
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TIL that in 1697 the puritan woman Hannah Duston was kidnapped by Abenaki natives who killed her newborn baby in front of her. She and two other captives staged a revolt and scalped ten of the Abenaki before escaping.
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TIL that walking through a doorway can cause you to “reset” your memory which causes you to forget why you went into another room in the first place.
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TIL Pixar’s animation department originally created water that was “too real” when producing “Finding Nemo”
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TIL the topmost vertebra is named Atlas, because it supports the globe of the head.
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TIL before the Egyptians designed the pyramids we recognize today, they built a few failed pyramids. One of these is known as “The Bent Pyramid”.