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TIL: After a promise to his daughter, it took Walt Disney 20 years to finally obtain the rights to Mary Poppins

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ZpMyQ TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.
8a4Jb TIL Institut Le Rosey, an elite Swiss boarding school, also has a campus in the ski resort of Gstaad. The school relocates its operations to the resort from January to March.
9YYdG TIL the hamlet of Boston Corner, New York was ceded from Massachusetts in 1855 because its geographical isolation from the rest of the state made maintaining law and order difficult.
o7RY TIL that from 1979 to 1993, NYC had upwards of 3000 non-working fire hydrants on sidewalks for the sole purpose of increasing parking violation revenue.
eDKD TIL Greta Friedman from the kissing sailor photo did not want to be kissed saying “It wasn’t my choice to be kissed, The guy just came over and grabbed me!”