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TIL That Mirrors are Often Next to Elevators to Keep People Busy During the Wait

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Q78M TIL Disney’s film “Song of the South” (based on the “Uncle Remus” books and famous for its “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” song) has never been released in its entirety on home video in the United States due to its offensive racial stereotypes and benign portrayal of ex-slaves and their former masters.
DK1J TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.
dDMjj TIL that the price of cigarettes in Australia and New Zealand are 2.5 to 3 times more expensive than cigarettes in the USA
ZpjXa TIL that the internet 'weighs' about as same as a large strawberry
X0rE6 TIL there was once a plot to assassinate Winston Churchill with an exploding chocolate bar