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TIL Dolly Parton was to star in a Disney animated movie titled "My Peoples" in which she portrayed an angel doll brought to life, but the film was scrapped in favor of "Chicken Little".

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R7KWw TIL: Arthur Venditti, an in-house designer for the Parker Brothers, was a fan of drag racing and recalled that the trucks that pushed the dragsters to the starting line had bumpers called “nerf bars”. Thus, leading to the famous NERF name.
rbNw TIL Connie Sawyer, the actress who played the old woman who Jim Carrey told, “Don’t you go dying on me!” in Dumb And Dumber, is still alive. She is currently 103 years old.
VB6bB TIL Since Adolf Hitler renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925, he was stateless for about seven years until he got his German citizenship in 1932. The delay was due to several attempts to get him a government job that would have granted him citizenship falling through.
OONR TIL that the cars in Oprah’s famous car giveaway back in 2004 were actually donated by General Motors and weren’t from Oprah herself
9w7ap TIL that astronomers regularly observe mysterious lights and temporary changes in structure on the surface of the moon. "Transient lunar phenomena" have not been fully explained, and are almost never observed at two different places on Earth at the same time.