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TIL Nuclear Semiotics investigates methods to inform earthlings of the far future to avoid nuclear waste sites; ideas include color-changing cats, an atomic priesthood, and a Rosetta Stone-type message

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d49B TIL 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie
gM5Y9 TIL Erskine Childers, a propagandist for the IRA during the Civil War, shook the hands of the men in the firing squad at his execution, and had his son promise to do the same for the men who signed his death warrant. His last words were “Take a step or two forward, lads, it will be easier that way.”
R5dbj TIL a pack of stray Chihuahuas terrorized Maryvale, AZ in 2014
6EWmm TIL that Twinkies switched from their original banana cream filling to their now standard vanilla cream filling due to the rationing of bananas during WW2.
PYywG TIL the sinking of the Titanic was a popular subject for early African-American rapping (known as Toasts), specifically the story of a fictional black worker named "Shine" who tries to warn the captain about water flooding, but is ignored.