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TIL one group of former Disney animators created the designs for Tony the Tiger, Snap, Crackle and Pop, The Jolly Green Giant, and the mascot for the Baltimore Orioles

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dDm6r TIL Tolkien rewrote a small part of Hobbit when he was working on LotR, changed the part about Gollum betting the ring on question game and parting way nicely to getting angry over losing the ring. Because the ring used in LotR was supposed to corrupt the user with greed.
ne5n7 TIL that in the California Condor Recovery Plan, researchers and breeders removed condor eggs and used condor puppets to raise and feed the chicks from those eggs. Parent condors would then lay more eggs to replace the taken eggs, thus increasing their reproductive rate.
nWBQG TIL that there are crystals that suddenly cannot be recreated, having been replaced globally by more stable forms via global contamination of microscopic seed crystals
4kAn6 TIL that the N1, the rocket developed for the Soviet moon landing program, had a missile variant designed to deliver 17 multi-megaton nuclear warheads, essentially destroying the entire United States in a single launch
XVd6 TIL Stephen Hawking’s wife cheated on him with a guy in her church choir then Hawking left her for his nurse/ the ex-wife of the guy who designed his voice box.