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TIL there are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can’t be cultivated because tsetse flies keep killing farm animals

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EGRx TIL Dreamworks’ Antz was made by former Disney employee who was told the story for Pixar’s A Bug’s Life years in advance. When he left Disney, he co-founded Dreamworks and used the story to make Antz, rushed production and released it a month before Pixar did. Pixar still grossed $70 million more.
16ak8 TIL Some teen thieves were made to dress up as Flintstones characters as punishment for stealing a Flintmobile replica from a comic book store
XL6P TIL it costs more to keep a prisoner in prison, than to send a student to Princeton.
RxO4 TIL In the 1920’s the state government of Indiana was literally run by the Klu Klux Klan
VBNOZ TIL Someone has made a list of multiple films where a lone shoe is lost by a female character.