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TIL Disney’s Aladdin is based off the 1940’s 3x Academy Award winning film The Thief of Bagdad

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ALBn TIL a man revived 5 rivers and brought water back to 1000 villages in India using native water-preservation techniques
wL7yP TIL In 2015 Smashmouth performed at an event where they were pelted with slices of bread from free loaves being handed out by vendors. Their lead singer went on a 3+ minute, profanity-laced rant about how the event was supposed to be family friendly.
pMrp TIL an Australian doctor has set up a real-life Dallas-Buyers-Club-style group to enable patients with hepatitis C to buy imported curative generic drugs for a fraction of the cost
0wLZj TIL the first monkey sent into space was named HAM
XE4yE TIL Due to China’s early discovery and love of ceramics they didn’t produce any glass between the 14th-19th century. This meant they didn’t have mirrors and windows etc, leaving them behind in sciences, as they didn’t make lenses and other things fundamental to science.