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TIL that The Lion King was intentionally modeled after Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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GGL7 TIL that even in today’s sitcoms, a large percentage of the people in the laugh-track have since passed away. Meaning that we watch comedies marked by the laughter of dead people.
QJrp6 TIL Schopenhauer called the post-orgasm feeling “devil's laughter" because it is the realization that we are all slaves to the Will of Life, as it takes precedence over our own happiness.
BxWK TIL an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea meets a white man for the first time in 1976 and thinks the white man is covered in dirt/sand.
Rr0w TIL that the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention recommends US travelers to Iceland to get vaccines for rabies because they might be bitten by bats. There are only 20 documented cases of bat sightings in Iceland - ever.
LQr8d TIL: An Wang was an immigrant who coinvented "write-after-read" which made magnetic core memory possible in computing while working at Harvard. However, Harvard cut computer research in 1951 so he started a business. He said, "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius"