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TIL The company that produced the original animated "The Hobbit" (and Nausicaa), Topcraft, would later become Studio Ghibili.

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woYdP TIL about Ralph C Smith, the US' last surviving WWII General, who passed away in 1998 aged 104. Not only was he the 13th person to receive a pilot's license, he was also instructed by Orville Wright.
jNEQa TIL Anoka, Minnesota was the first U.S. city to put on a Halloween celebration when they did so in 1920 to divert youngsters from Halloween pranks. It was also proclaimed "The Halloween Capital of the World" by Congress in 1937. Today, tens of thousands of people visits Anoka annually for Halloween.
vn7K TIL Barns are painted red because red paint is cheap, the paint is cheap because the iron is abundant and the iron is abundant because it’s the final element formed from a star’s death.
jg7R TIL when John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: “I fok horses”, Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: “Pardon?”, Luns replied: “Yes, paarden!”. ‘Fokken’ means 'to breed’, and 'horses’ means 'paarden’ in Dutch
b0a4 TIL Truman Capote and Harper Lee were childhood next-door neighbors and best friends. Both felt alienated from their peers; Capote called the two of them “apart people”