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TIL Oreo O’s are still produced and readily available in South Korea.

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mOdY TIL Guillermo del Toro was working with Disney on an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows but left the production team as an executive said: ‘Could you give Toad a skateboard and make him say, 'radical dude’. Del Toro responded: 'It’s been a pleasure…’
JYZbQ TIL: The Cowardly Lion costume in the Wizard of Oz was made of real lion fur, skin and human hair. It recently sold at auction for 3 million dollars.
epx0k TIL a common trope of early vernacular Chinese novels was "(A) lone Tibetan monk with his potent aphrodisiacs and retractable penis"
4koww TIL local Cretan resistance in WWII was so great that civilians would attack Axis paratroopers as they were landing with knives, axes, scythes and even their bare hands.
oBAxr TIL John Romero's (co-creator of Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake) great-grandmother was a crime boss in the 1920's. Starting in Sonora, Mexico, she ran brothels and had an entire empire, controlling it well past the age of 60 (but didn't like to discuss age) and expanded it as far as Tucson, Arizona,