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TIL More Than Half Of American Adults Still Have Their Childhood Stuffed Animal

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OZE6 TIL Ben Affleck dropped out of college after his creative writing teacher ridiculed an early draft of the Good Will Hunting screenplay.
wLMJP TIL Curious George's name is "Hitomane Kozaru" in Japan, "Peter Pedal" in Denmark, and "Nicke Nyfiken" in Sweden. He was given the spunky name "Zozo" in the UK, because people thought it was disrespectful to name a monkey after the current king.
bYRZ TIL ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are on its way there
WkjWA TIL, if we were to compress the entire history of the earth into a single year, modern humans would only appear on December the 31st at around 11:36 PM.
LQxy0 TIL that Ian Fleming (who created James Bond) also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.