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TIL Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., the 1958 Walt Disney Christmas special, “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas" airs on Sweden’s main public-television channel, TV1

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Djlv TIL that at the age of 10, Noam Chomsky wrote his first article for his school newspaper about the fall of Barcelona to Francisco Franco’s forces and the rise of fascism.
7QVO TIL silver is naturally antibacterial due to the metal ions denaturing the organism’s proteins
kba5 TIL there was a 1940’s U.S. plane which had 10 engines, 336 spark plugs, carried a camera that could spot a golf ball at 12 miles, and could stay in the air for 50 hours.
pwa8 TIL Toy Story 2 got deleted twice. Once on accident with /bin/rm -r -f *