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TIL That Disney has multiple unfinished and abandoned projects and parks that they left to deteriorate

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Z8xda TIL Charles Kuentz fought for the Germans during WW1 but became a French citizen after his homeland, Alsace-Lorraine, was taken back by France after the war. When France surrendered to Germany in 1940 he became a German citizen until the fall of the Third Reich which again made him a French citizen.
W7OwB TIL about Debategate, which was a political scandal revolving around Ronald Reagan acquiring Jimmy Carters Top-Secret briefing papers in the lead up to the Oct. 28th, 1980 Presidential Debate.
b9Bea Forget the trial and error - mathematics has proved where the best spot to place your router is.
grAYX TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The inscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
XEvQX TIL Kevin Spacey's most recent film had a domestic opening weekend box office take of $618.