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TIL Disney used to film real actors and draw over the video footage to animate movies like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty

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KMNB TIL most English translations of Jules Verne’s novels omit a lot of scientific exposition (sometimes entire chapters), replace lots of dialogue with short summaries, censor supposedly “anti-British"or"anti-American” sentiment, add many errors, and sometimes add whole new scenes.
OoAVg TIL Baseball legend Yogi Berra had 2148 hits for the New York Yankees. He decided to end his career with the New York Mets. He had 2 hits with the Mets before retiring.
pY6MA TIL about the "Dublin whiskey fire" of 1875. Despite destroying a warehouse and a row of houses, all 13 deaths during the event were reportedly caused by alcohol poisoning.
m1Lov TIL North Korea periodically introduces "poop quotas" to compensate for the fertilizer shortage, leading some citizens to steal feces from each other.
nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.