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TIL Shrek was based on a picture book from 1990. It about him (and eventually the princess) embracing his/their ugliness.

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yQp6J TIL There are two bars in Swizterland whose interior is themed along the Alien movies and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger
Ya0A TIL that while in the Congo, “James Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey manufacturer, bought an eleven-year old girl and offered her to cannibals in order to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.”
d88E8 TIL there is a woman who takes photographs of roadkill to make are.
5VWa8 TIL that Stilton cheese cannot be produced in the village of Stilton. The cheese has the status of protected designation of origin, requiring that only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire can be called Stilton. Stilton is in Cambridgeshire
Bx7e TIL multicellular life only has 800 million years left on Earth, at which point, there won’t be enough CO2 in the atmosphere for photosynthesis to occur.