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TIL the amount of content on the World Wide Web that can’t be found by regular search engines is several orders of magnitude larger than the content that can be found.

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Z807Y TIL: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" was a motto suggested for the Seal of the United States. Jefferson eventually appropriated it for his own seal. The source of the motto is not known for certain, but may have originated with Benjamin Franklin.
Qpjk TIL Disney used to film real actors and draw over the video footage to animate movies like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty
LE00 TIL a week before the Iraq War began, Tim Russert reported “every analysis said this war itself would cost about $80 billion […] We should expect that this would cost at least $100 billion for a two-year involvement.” Brown University’s final tally was $3.2-4 trillion, or about 3500% more.
pY9JA TIL Olive Oyl was the main character 10 years before Popeye in their original comic strip
9Ym1r TIL when a chimpanzee that learns an effective method to crack nuts open is placed into a new group that uses a less effective strategy, it will eventually stop using the superior method just to blend in with the rest of the chimps.