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TIL Tim Burton stopped Disney from making a Nightmare Before Christmas sequel because it wouldn’t have been made using stop motion animation.

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nWPwB TIL that Nobel laureates Richard Kuhn and Wolfgang Pauli were schoolmates from 1910-1918. Kuhn would later win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 and Pauli was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1945.
Gg8E TIL Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to make meth by the DEA in preparation for his role in Breaking Bad
D1Wg TIL on August 20th, 1191, during the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionhearted’s Christian Army had the Muslim-held city of Acre surrounded. When the besieged could not meet the gold payment for terms of surrender, Richard’s army slaughtered 3000+ bound prisoners in full view of the opposing army.
eQk5 TIL The Chinese had a little known civil war around the same time as the US Civil war. The government tried to silence a huge cult which believed their leader was the little brother of Jesus, but it ended up causing a 14 year war that killed millions of people. The deadliest war of the 19th century.
NXkM6 TIL that from 1264 to 1827, anyone who received a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to swear that they would never forgive Henry Symeonis. By 1608, no one knew who he was or what he had done.