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TIL that in the Little Mermaid TV series Ariel basically executes a villain who's tied up and defenseless.

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7806M TIL that nattokinase, an enzyme contained in nattō, exhibits strong fibrinolytic activity and inactivates plasminogen activator inhibitor 1—a risk factor for thrombosis and atherosclerosis—when it comes into contact with human blood or blood clots.
OGVXY TIL Of Empyrean Challenge, a play by mail game that has been described as "the most complex game system on Earth". The game involves 150 players trying to control a cluster of systems. A single turn can require a 1,000 pages writeup.
4kVY5 TIL A study in the UK found that the number of CEOs of top companies with red hair was four times higher than the percentage of persons with red hair in the general population.
kJoyg TIL a Gameboy was stored in a barracks that was bombed in The Gulf War and it ran Tetris like nothing happened.
N7OYJ TIL in 1956 the Soviet Union had considered a plan to build a 55-mile dam across the Bering Strait, pump warm water into the Arctic Ocean, and thaw Siberia.