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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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WkarB TIL that the 12-story Soviet embassy in Indonesia was torn down in December 1990 (a year before its dissolution) due to national security concern over a mall (Plaza Indonesia) built near the building. Always thought that the current Russian embassy was also the one used by the Soviet Union.
LXvV TIL that a man bought a BMW for $1 because of a mistake on the bidding.
BK1d TIL a “fag” was a younger schoolboy who was a personal “servant” to an older schoolboy in a private school. They practiced “fagging” and a senior fag was a “fag-master”
WkXj9 TIL That Orson Welles had met both Hitler and Winston Churchill in his lifetime
4eXR TIL that Dana Snyder’s audition for “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” was literally an angry, abusive and drunk rambling message left on the voice mail of Dave Willis, the show’s producer and writer. Snyder eventually became the voice for “Master Shake”.