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TIL that all cast members who work for Disney are given specialist training in signing their characters autograph so that if you went now, and again in ten years time, Mickeys autograph will always be the same no matter who is playing him at the time.

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9YDVG TIL that despite being aligned with Nazi Germany in WWII, Finnish Jews were not persecuted by the government of Finland. The Finnish Army set up the only field synagogue on the Eastern Front and Finnish Jews fought with Germans in support of the Axis Powers.
OGGb1 TIL The Mariana Trench was first discovered in 1951 by a British Survey ship.
a6oJ TIL Neanderthals used medicinal plants
KO91J TIL that although Tic Tacs are almost 100% sugar, FDA regulations allow them to be advertised as 0 grams of sugar per serving due to their size
epAlL TIL that commercial fishing used to deliberately surround, trap and drown dolphins that would get in the way of the tuna which led to a government act to protect and label tuna caught without harming dolphins as “dolphin safe” tuna.