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TIL that 650 soldiers created a beautiful tribute to thank WWI War Horses and Donkeys. About eight million horses, and countless mules, and donkeys were lost in the war. The photo was taken by the officers in the Auxiliary Remount Dept. No.326 in Camp Cody, New Mexico in 1915.

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8eeab TIL one of the original dwarves in Disney’s Snow White was named “Deafy” whose primary trait was misunderstanding others. This idea was later jettisoned in favor of “Sneezy”.
M7by8 TIL if you fall asleep on a Tarantino set, you will be photographed with a 3-foot dildo named "Big Jerry" next to your face and placed on the wall of shame. If you remove it, it will be enlarged and placed back on the wall. If you remove it again, it will be printed on t-shirts for the entire crew.
mxW0o TIL about the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuclear bomb that was deemed too powerful to use. It was 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and 10 times more powerful than all the munitions expended during WW2.
e0JYL TIL: Top-billed “Fast & Furious” franchise actors tried to enact contract demands that limit the number of hits their characters took, and refused to definitely lose a fight. Vin Diesel went so far as to devise a tallying system for kicks, punches, and head-butts.
Z8NVD TIL: the parasitic 'Honey' Mushroom (Armillaria mellea) is both one of the oldest and largest single organisms in the world; roots stretching 8.8 square kilometres and somewhere between 2,000 and 9,000 years old!