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TIL Fraggles are just the ‘evolutive form’ of doozers that stop working.

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pYe6A TIL: Banyan merchant is an expression used widely in the Indian Ocean trade to refer to Indian merchants who are clearly distinguished from others, by their clothing, their religious and cultural dietary choices, and the manner in which they conduct trade
Wk9AL TIL when Stanley Kubrick asked Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters to use elements of the Atom Heart Mother suite, Waters refused because Kubrick wanted to cut the piece to fit the film. Later, when Waters asked Kubrick if he could use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick duly refused.
OnX4 TIL that Nosebleed, a movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.
nv9d TIL that Woody’s actual full name is ‘Woody Pride’ and has been since the earliest days of developing the original Toy Story.
Drkj TIL 1.2 million golden orb spiders were individually collected to weave the largest piece of golden spider silk cloth in the world