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TIL Bambi was used for fire prevention programs. However, could not be used indefinitely because it was loaned from Walt Disney Studios for only a year. The Forest Service needed to find an animal that would belong to them. The Forest Service decided that the fire prevention symbol would be a bear.

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XE87k TIL Approximately 0.5 - 1 tons of Titanic's wreck is turning to rust every day. It is expected to collapse entirely within 50 years.
PYoRE TIL cats commonly have white bellies and paws because when pigment develops in the womb, it starts along what will become the spine and works its way around to the front. Sometimes pigmentation doesn’t make it all the way around, resulting in color on top and white on the bottom.
woy17 TIL: During WW2, dancing was explicitly allowed as one of the recreations not to be banned by the UK. Most recreational activities were banned to focus on the war effort. During dance activities, air raid rehearsals would occur midway and they vacated the dance floor in 30 seconds.
gM8AX TIL: African Pygmy tribes were essentially atheistic and were observed to have no cults, no rites, no totems, no deities, and no spirits. Dead were buried without ceremonies or gifts and received no further attention. They even appeared to lack simple superstitions, according to travelers' reports
g6A9 TIL in 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI