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TIL the "Be Prepared" scene featured in The Lion King was based off the 1935 Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will"

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7v1X TIL that blue is officially the national colour of Ireland, even though green is more popular.
WAaY TIL light in itself isn’t special, it’s just that according to Einstein, the fastest speed reachable in the universe is 300K m/s. It just happens that light is the only thing we detected that travels without limitations in vacuum, which is why we associate the speed limit of the universe with it.
EK7V TIL a man faked his death, lived next door without his kids knowing, fled to Panama with his wife on a fake passport, tried to build a hotel using his insurance money, after a visa policy change he returned home and pretended not to remember anything; his ruse was revealed by a Google search
lo1O1 TIL: George Orwell, the author of 1984, was the one who coined the term "cold war" to describe post-WWII relationship between the US and the USSR. He used it to describe the new landscape that the atom bomb created.
krd1 TIL that after his mother died Shaka Zulu had pregnant women and their husbands killed, and also had cows slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like