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TIL Pixar's "UP" Was Originally About Two Princes, a Floating City, and a strange large bird

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4XoQJ TIL the Seattle Center Monorail began operating 58 years ago and still uses their original trains.
JYVeB TIL Common Toads have incredible memory, travelling hundreds of miles in Spring to return to the exact same pond where they were born in order to lay their eggs (of which there can be more than 1,500)
JYMp8 TIL Wario is named Wario because it's a portmanteau of the words 'Mario' and the Japanese word 'warui' (æ‚Șい), meaning "bad"- not because a W is an upside-down M to signify that he's Mario's evil counterpart.
e0nG4 TIL On the tiny island nation of Tuvalu, everyday for about two hours before sunset hundreds of Tuvaluans, young and old, meet on the international airport runway to just hang out
6EgEY TIL, Disneyland's Jungle Cruise is now a self sustaining ecosystem and requires very little landscaping