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TIL the Walt Disney Company neither owns nor operates Tokyo Disneyland

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9YoJm TIL about "exploding caskets" being a problem in mausoleums. The process of decay builds up gasses that can cause a literal explosion and knock down the marble front of a crypt.
Y7jvA Til about the Chinese idiom "Point at a deer saying it's a horse". An intentionally blatent lie that was originally devised as a loyalty test and now is used to describe gaslighting.
ADwXo TIL that Snape’s first words to Harry were actually a Victorian Flower Language secret message.
6dGw TIL John Travolta, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray all turned down the role of Forrest Gump & Ice Cube and Dave Chappelle both turned down the role of Bubba.
oBkNA TIL about Lakshmi Tatma, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs. Named after a Hindu goddess often depicted as four-armed, the girl became worshipped, and a circus offered to buy her. After a 27-hour surgery done by thirty surgeons, done for free, Lakshmi's extra limbs were removed.