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TIL of Mockbusters, ripoffs of Blockbusters including the 1998 "Secret of Mulan" which ripped off Mulan and A Bugs Life, where all the characters were bugs.

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axvL TIL that Betty Boop was actually based off of an African American singer whose singing trademark was “Boop oop da doop”. The resemblance between the two of them is uncanny.
NMrJ TIL For years an American magician named William Robinson masqueraded as a Chinese performer named Chung Ling Soo. He never spoke English in public until he was fatally shot during a performance of his bullet catch trick. His only words on stage; “Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain.”
GGBE TIL that the song Baby It’s Cold Outside was written and sung by a married couple to sing at the end of parties to get guests to leave
nW8ZY Today I learned that the influx of silver from the discovery of the Potosi mines indirectly caused the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
QOme TIL the oldest unopened wine bottle in the world is from a 4th century Roman tomb