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TIL Walt Disney received one full-size Oscar for Snow White—as well as seven miniature ones

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6EMwQ TIL During breeding season some ants grow wings to fly and procreate with different colonies... then once they're done the wings shed and then grow again next breeding season. However if they are no longer fertile, they won't grow wings ever again.
rRX5W TIL "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a cover of a 1939 South African song called "Mbube," recorded in Zulu by Soloman Linda & the Evening Birds. The original is now public domain, but "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," with additional lyrics in English ("In the jungle, the mighty jungle...") is under copyright.
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OoxX6 TIL there is also a Tomb of Unknows Civil War soldiers. 2,111 unidentifiable casualties found in 1866
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