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TIL the disney Pixar movie wall-e angered fat pride groups for its message towards obese people.

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M77jB TIL that the CIA's analysis of Osama bin Laden's PC found a “fairly extensive” hentai collection, a Steam account with Counter-Strike, FFVII, and Animal Crossing, as well as 28 crochet tutorial videos among 174GB of mostly-western entertainment
b98yN TIL that the word villain came from the ancient term villein, a person of low social status in the feudal system.
vPbg7 TIL Pop-Tarts® had a toaster mascot named Milton
loQAr TIL Elton John owned an English soccer team and was really good at it - "in the space of seven years, the club had climbed from bottom place in the lowest division of The Football League to top position in the highest division"
nWapG TIL The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years. It was found in 2002, approximately 12 miles south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and is now housed in the city’s museum.