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

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p8MbQ TIL that the Geto Boys' 1991 album We Can't Be Stopped was taken in the hospital the day after Bushwick Bill was shot in the eye. High on PCP and drunk on Everclear, he said he shot himself during a tussle with his girlfriend, but later stated he told his mother to shoot him for insurance money.
DjWj TIL South Park did a Scientology episode the credits all said John Smith or Jane Smith to avoid personal lawsuits
x6aOB TIL that in the 30s, radio station WLW operated at 500kW, broadcasting to most of the US from a single antenna. Nearby residents noticed: some of their lights never turned off and farmers could hear the station through barbed wire fences
N7NeN TIL that coppicing -- cutting a deciduous tree to the ground when it is dormant -- produces multiple stems growing out of the main trunk. This method of pruning allows the continual harvest of wood from the same tree for centuries.
XELX8 TIL Henk Rogers just went to Moscow and tried to buy the rights for Tetris from the Soviet Union. When Rogers arrived at Electronorgtechnica his translator refused to go inside as going to a government agent without proper paperwork was unthinkable. Rogers went in anyways and got rights to Tetris.