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TIL the most expensive marketing campaign ever done for a film was for Spider-Man: Far from Home

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Kaoa TIL the Disney animated Jungle Book character, King Louie, is an Orangutan but in the live action version they changed him to a Gigantopithecus. Although extinct they once lived in forest throughout India, which avoids the movie perpetuating a geographic fallacy.
wpv8 TIL one of the first books burned by Nazis, Heinrich Heine play, contained a famous line “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people”
gMgr9 TIL that bees have a stomach specifically for honey. If they get hungry they can turn a valve which allows some of the collected nectar to travel to their stomach.
5VGPn TIL about Poles of inaccessibility.
v1A78 TIL the Maltese language is descended from the time of Muslim Arab control over Malta a millennium ago. The Arab language survived Christian reconquest, but disconnected from the Arab world, absorbed Italian/Sicilian/English vocabulary, evolving into Maltese today. It is written with Latin script.