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TIL Disney World has 7500 acres of empty land, stemming from a 1970 environmental promise Disney made to Florida to never built anything on it.

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wodoP TIL. IKEA has a secret code for naming its products. For example, bookcases are named after occupations, sofas are named after places in Sweden, and rugs are named after places in Denmark
QNP5e TIL broad-snouted caimans are able to gain nutrition from soy protein. American alligators have also been shown to be able to gain nutrition from soy protein.
jNjlM TIL that the practice of touching/knocking on wood after making an positive observation about your life, to ward off bad luck or "jinxing" yourself, is spread across completely separate countries and cultures on every continent
wa7Y TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with turning base metal to gold that samples of his hair showed mercury levels up to 40 times higher than average. This is considered to be the reason he went mad in his later years.
eD4J TIL that after filming Zulu director Cy Endfield could not pay the Zulu extras because of South Africa’s apartheid laws, he circumvented this by leaving all the animals they used including Cattle, a gift more valuable than money to the Zulus.