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TIL That John Ratzenburger has been in every Pixar movie ever made.

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rg1W TIL that to put the roof on giant natural gas silos, they build the silo around the roof with an airtight fit, then use fans to slowly raise the roof up to the top
5d4R TIL Canadian botanist Charles Budd Robinson was killed due to his bad language skill. When he asked a village boy to chop down a coconut (kelapa), he mistakenly asked the boy to chop down a head (kepala). The villagers mistook him for a headhunter and killed him.
Dlnp TIL that the Every Vote Counts Amendment is a proposed Amendment that abolishes the electoral college for presidential elections
X0Q5X TIL that Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934 CE), a Persian scholar, rejected the idea that mental illness was caused by demons or supernatural forces. He recognized conditions like depression and anxiety and argued they had natural psychological and physical causes, centuries ahead of modern psychiatry.
5YR8R TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II had a series of birth defects, most notably a withered left arm. Treatments for his arm include: salt water sprays, cold compression, electric shocks, stretching, and putting the arm into a fresh animal carcass (Queen Victoria thought this was a bad idea).