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TIL that Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Totoro) was set to animate the Little Nemo movie, but left the project. This amazing test pilot still exists, though!

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newWd TIL Phil Hartman, the voice of Troy McClure and the sleazy neighbour from Jingle All The Way, was murdered by his own wife
OoVVX TIL of the Telescoping Effect, a tendency of people to recall recent events as being longer ago, and distant events as being more recent than they actually were. Similarly, Vierordt's law states: people tend to overestimate the length of short periods of time, and underestimate long periods of time.
bLnN TIL that a small japanese railway company was so financially troubled that they started selling rice crackers, to the point that profits from selling rice crackers were double than those from the railway.
l79P1 TIL that Cleopatra’s beauty regimen included bathing in donkey milk. She reportedly used the milk of 700 donkeys for her baths to preserve her skin's softness and youth.
KYwnE TIL of the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Anglo-Saxons caught a Viking Raider force before the Vikings could get back to their boats and annihilated them.