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TIL “The Land Before Time” (1988) had both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as executive producers.

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oBNpL TIL that every year, 25 million pounds of Mardi Gras beads are distributed in New Orleans, and the plastic beads contain toxic levels of lead, bromine, arsenic, phthalate plasticizers, halogens, cadmium, chromium, mercury and chlorine.
XE4Nr TIL Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime, The Red Vineyard. This painting sold in Brussels for 400 Francs only a few months before his death.
GApDj TIL following the US entry into WWI in 1917, a wave of anti-German sentiment swept across the nation. This sentiment manifested in acts of aggression towards Dachshund dogs, with disturbing reports emerging of some being targeted and even killed by enraged mobs.
NAEN TIL That a species of Squid has been observed to leap from the ocean and use pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!
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