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TIL that after having a falling out with Disney over marketing disagreements for Aladdin, Robin Williams put a clause in his will preventing the company from using his voice/outtakes in future films for 25 years after his death.

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Wkm1L TIL Mexico was the only country to protest against the German annexation of Austria
QJpK9 TIL because of some changes in classifications along time, crocodiles belong to a taxonomic clade named Pseudosuchia, which means "false crocodiles"
m1Wby TIL about the Lake Megachad. Some 10'000 years ago Africa was a lot wetter than today, and lake Chad was considerably larger back then. What a chad!
nOR7 TIL that the parody national anthem or Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played in its entirety for a Kazakh gold medalist during the 2012 Olympics
yQ7Vw TIL that in the Middles Ages, psychiatric disorder existed among the upper class causing people to fear that they were made of glass "and therefore likely to shatter into pieces". One famous sufferer was King Charles VI of France, who wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from "shattering"