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TIL That ESPN accounts for more than HALF of Disney’s total operating income.

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loKQ5 TIL in 2014, an 89 year old WW2 veteran, Bernard Shaw went missing from his nursing home. It turned out that he went to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings against the nursing home's orders. He left the home wearing a grey mack concealing the war medals on his jacket.
R7mD9 TIL Pinball was removed from Windows Vista because the game had issues being ported to 64-bit. It had nothing to due with copyright or legal reasons
EgJpV TIL in an unusual case of atavism, there is only one recorded case in medical literature of a congenital os penis AKA baculum. The baculum is otherwise absent from humans (where erection is achieved and sustained through blood pressure) though it is present in the other great apes.
WKLd TIL of Lazzaro Spallanzani, who dressed male frogs in tight pants so that their sperm couldn’t escape into female frogs. He proved that the creation of new life required both the sperm and the egg.
E11jw TIL George Washington was on the Philippine 10 Pesos banknote