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TIL Mr. Bean voiced Zazu in lion king.

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xZZB TIL that Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a passage attacking slavery, calling it an ‘execrable commerce’. The passage was removed due to pressure from Southern plantation owners and Northern slave merchants
p8JJA TIL of a man who retired at 61 and becames a perpetual hiker. Over 15 years he walked over 34,000 miles (55,000 KM). He became the first known person to hike the entire Appalachian Range in North America, from Newfoundland to the Keys and more and more.
x6PYD TIL that the first true automobile was invented by Karl Benz
kl7m TIL a man named Russell Jones, an art director from Park Slope, Brooklyn, received numerous phone calls from Wu-Tang fans who thought he was Russell Jones aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard. One time, Jones received a phone call from Method Man himself, who asked to speak to “Dirty”.
oRdOE TIL The Dachshund has it's distinct body shape due to being bred to enter the burrows of small animals, and its distinct face allowed it to access small crevices within these burrows to latch onto it's prey and be pulled out of the burrow by it's owner.