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TIL: There's something called as a Twisted Childhood Universe which give a horror twist to your favourite childhood characters like Pooh, Bambi, Peterpan, Pinocchio, etc.

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PYBWE TIL about Izecksohn's Brazilian treefrog (Xenohyla truncata), the only known frugivorous frog species. It feeds on fruit, seeds, pods, pulp flowers and arthropods. It locates the fruit and simply snaps it, swallowing it whole. They eat insects just like any other frog when fruits are unavailable.
MJlV TIL Stephen King threw away his original drafts of “Carrie” because he couldn’t write from a woman’s perspective. His wife retrieved them and launched his career.
KYvVG TIL Benjamin Franklin is frequently quoted as the author, but he never said "Democracy can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."; that is a misquote of a scottish monarchist who hated democracy
a8Jg9 TIL people used to steal corpses and mummies to grind up into paint and medicines
PYVOO TIL Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, Roopkund lake, in India