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TIL Scar from The Lion King’s original name is Taka

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Lk6k0 TIL while filming Armageddon Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay why they would train oil drillers as astronauts instead of the opposite to which Michael Bay told him to ‘shut the f*ck up’
VMVmB TIL about Alice Ball, an African American woman who, in 1915, at the age of 23 revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating an soluble & injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.
pRbN TIL: Goosebumps writer, RL Stine, was making $40M a year in his prime, making him one of the wealthiest entertainers.
j6BLa TIL of a variant of diabetes called 'diabetes insipidus', caused by problems with the hormone that regulates water retention and urine production. Sufferers can pee up to 20L per day.
neEl9 TIL: As the Great Depression had struck the country, Brazil couldn't afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. So they loaded a ship with coffee and the delegation of 82 athletes traveled in this ship selling coffee along the way to fund the trip.