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TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.

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kO695 TIL: China has a strong PC gaming community as consoles were illegal for 15 years until 2015 due to fears of negative mental development.
9YW9G TIL lobsters have evolved to pee at each other to express sexual interest, and like to pee during sex. This process begins with the female basically drugging the male with her own urine.
NpKN TIL An elephant’s digestive system produces enough methane gas each day to propel an automobile twenty miles.
oRBAY TIL that King Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, ordered the execution of Anabaptists - who believed in a second adult baptism - by what he referred to as a 'Third Baptism': Drowning!
PYvdZ TIL that John allen chau, christian missionary who famously was killed by the north sentinelese in India in 2018,tried to communicate with them in the xhosa Language(a south african language!), after which the natives often fell silent.