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TIL Monopoly game was originally intended to be a teaching tool about the injustices of Capitalism

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g5BD TIL: There is a device you can place on your window that actually turns the glass into a speaker cancelling outside noise, and also allows you to select which sounds you want to penetrate.
PmMg TIL that most experienced Disney animators chose to work on Pocahontas instead of the Lion King because many at Disney had little faith in the project, leaving mostly first time animators working on the Lion King.
1akGV TIL that there used to be a commercial project to establish a permanent manned base on the Moon called the Artemis Project.
NXj48 TIL that of Disney’s top films of all time (Frozen, Little Mermaid, Tangled, etc.), almost all of them are adaptations of Hans Christian Anderson or Brothers Grimm. Disney has archives of unpublished Anderson inspired projects in storage they are prepared to pull from to create future films
1pbW TIL Occam’s razor is not “the simplest answer is usually correct”, it’s “the answer that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct”.