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TIL that several striking similarities suggest that Disney plagiarized Kimba the White Lion to create The Lion King.

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YLEZ TIL that, while working for Sports Illustrated, Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a piece about a race horse jumping over a fence and attempting to escape. He stared at a blank piece of paper all morning then wrote, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and then left.
VM8a8 TIL that Tuvalu (a Pacific island nation) leased the rights to the .tv domain in 1999 for $50 million; the deal trebled their entire national income, and one of the first things they bought was a membership in the United Nations
grrG4 TIL about the existence of Platybelodons, a prehistoric elephant with the mouth of platypus
wLvAo TIL the worlds smallest playable guitar is 10 microns long (about the size of a red blood cell). It has six strings each about 100 atoms wide and is played by aiming lasers at the strings. Its tone is about 130,000 times higher than a regular guitar supposedly the highest pitch ever recorded.
KKE9 TIL in 2007, Serbian vandals drove a stake into former president Slobodan Milosevic’s grave to prevent him from coming back as a vampire.