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Today I Learned (from DefunctLand) that Disney made a live action "Doug" at one of their theme parks in the 90s.

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KOKLB TIL of Art-o-mat machines; specialised vending machines that dispense art, specifically the artwork of local artists. As of July 2018, there were over 100 machines around the world, and over 400 artists involved.
kJKY1 TIL Early Hominins (~3–4 million years ago) showed high levels of sexual dimorphism, with males significantly larger than females, like modern gorillas. Over time, with the emergence of genus Homo, size dimorphism decreased, approaching the more moderate levels seen in modern humans.
R7Pp6 TIL Emily Osment (Lilly in Hannah Montana) is the sister of Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense)
oRYRY TIL the monkeys at Australia's Melbourne Zoo have been put on a banana-free diet because selective breeding of the fruit has made it too sugary. The issue being that cultivated fruits have been genetically modified to be much higher in sugar content than their natural, ancestral fruits.