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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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DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.
b9OYj TIL The bible teaches "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself" Leviticus 19:33
4kbn6 TIL in 2006 thieves in Buenos Aires tunneled underneath a bank & entered its vault. After a 7-hour standoff with 23 hostages, authorities entered to find $20m missing, a row of toy guns, & a note that said "In a neighborhood of rich people, without weapons or grudges, it's just money, not love."
mxBYY TIL Concrete is made from water-eroded quartz sand, and we're running out of it
0wLey TIL: A small village in Austria (1100 citizens) has its own small MRT (1,3km)