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TIL the original the first Disneyland was managed and brought to reality by two Stanford graduates named Woody & Buzz, who ironically did not serve as the inspiration for Pixar's Toy Story

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dDEp7 TIL about shotgun houses - narrow rectangular houses about 12 feet wide that were popular in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War through the 1920s.
R59Vw TIL that deaths related to heart attacks and heart disease are statistically more common on Christmas and New Year's days.
1dMV TIL : There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated to English. “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute.” in English means “Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say.”
KOLO4 TIL: Orange peels helped revive a Costa Rican forest
4Qm5 TIL 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were citizens of Saudi Arabia; the others were from the United Arab Emirates (2), Egypt and Lebanon