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TIL that Newfoundland dogs have webbed paws!

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6E6n7 TIL When Disney released “Fantasia 2000” it was the first feature length animated film to be shown in IMAX. IMAX had to agree to Disney’s screening terms, and since the California Science Center in LA did not, Disney built their own IMAX theater for the film’s 4mo run. Then demolished it afterward.
ANX9o TIL “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it is impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
8KoP TIL that in Israel there is something called the “Jewish Internet Defense Force”, a government run propagandist movement that hires Israeli students, puts them in front of a computer googling to find anything that criticises Israel and had them try to remove it or claim it is a lie…
jNLYN TIL an future earthquake in the Midwest can result in over $300 billion in damages and 86,000 casualties
GY8WG TIL about half of America’s states owe their names to Native American origin