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TIL why human-like characters in animated movies have weird proportions

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awNgA TIL Taiwanese author Chen Yingzhen was a supporter of the notion of a unifying Chinese national identity in Taiwan. Chen was "considered by many Chinese readers and critics in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas to be Taiwan's greatest author"
a8pmb TIL that Gordon Lightfoot released his famous ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" less than 10 months after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior
kOrdd TIL that the appendix is not useless. Based on known facts, researchers asserted in 2007 that it stores beneficial bacteria to repopulate the body should it be purged of that bacteria by illness. An experiment then showed the disease C-diff to reoccur 4x more often in those without an appendix.
DQayY TIL that in 1974, a group of farmers in China discovered a life-sized terracotta army buried underground, dating back to the 3rd century BCE.