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TIL Disney considered creating a park called “Shadowland” or “Dark Kingdom” dedicated to villains.

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5VPxk TIL the shortest commercially available flight in the world is between Westray and Papa Westray
xVrXw TIL that Ventriloquism was originally considered a form of Necromancy.
bZO7 TIL a 1970s Canadian science experiment made drugs freely available to both caged rats and colony rats: The rats in cages developed drug habits. The rats in normal ‘society’ refused them.
epre6 TIL that the iconic birdlike mask of plague doctors in the 17th century was designed to hold herbs and perfumes, which kept away bad smells, such as the smell of decaying bodies. Doctors believed the herbs would counter the "evil" smells of the plague and prevent them from becoming infected.
WkkNd TIL of joseph lozito, the man that stopped a stabbing-spree, never got acknowledged by the police as the man who stopped him. He fought the killer whilst being stabbed with a giant knife in the arm, the chest and in the head.