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TIL Disney wanted the "Man" Villain from Bambi to die in a fire and his charred corpse to be shown on screen - The scene was storyboarded but eventually scrapped

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Lk8Rm TIL That one month in lunar terms is called a "moonth' as it takes 29.53 days to orbit the earth
8aGn4 TIL of a Russian dog whose owners were killed in a car accident. Despite attempts to adopt or re-home him, the dog refused to leave the site of the accident and waited for them until it died 7 years later. The city informally adopted the dog and dedicated a statue to honor his loyalty.
GQ8g TIL Russian Cosmonauts carry a gun in space.
xVNPD TIL: In 1982, Daniel Shechtman discovered a new type of crystal called a quasicrystal. The scientific community mocked him. A colleague told him to read a textbook on crystallography and he was later fired for continuing his research. In 2011, Shechtman won the Nobel prize for this discovery.
jNVMM TIL Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks have regular ‘colonoscopy parties’ where they prep together overnight and share one car on the ride to get their colonoscopies the next day