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TIL Ariel is the only Disney princess to have a child

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Xpo8 TIL there is a horror movie about an Orca who exacts revenge on the crew that murdered his mate. The actual Orcas in the film were a mated pair named Nepo and Yaka. When Nepo died 3 years later of pneumonia, Yaka stayed while he took his final breaths. She refused to leave him.
Z8QpG TIL that in Tom Hanks' first movie, "He Knows You're Alone", his character was supposed to be killed off, but the crew liked him so much they decided not to film the scene, meaning his character survived
p8Gle TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse
BkMe TIL a century ago women were very involved in the movie industry in key positions. Half of all the films copyrighted in between 1911 and 1925 were written by women and during the twenties a quarter of the screenwriters were women
yQeWw TIL that Earth Day was conceived by a Wisconsin Senator named Gaylord Nelson after witnessing a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California