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TIL There's a town in the Netherlands called Hogeweyk that is specifically for people with dementia or Alzheimer's. Along with the residents being able to stroll around town, Hogeweyk also holds concerts and street fairs to add to the sense of normalcy.

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jJyE TIL There’s an alternate ending to The Lion King, where Scar defeats Simba by throwing him off Pride Rock to his apparent death. A fire then consumes Scar who stands there, laughing manically, while he burns to death. It was deemed “too dark” for a Disney film.
YpKVB TIL of Hellenism, the modern day revival of the ancient Greek religion
69QlY TIL pistachios are not nuts? They look like them but they were not botanically classified as such.
R7l07 TIL that in 1924, H. P. Lovecraft was hired to ghostwrite a story for Harry Houdini about Houdini's supposedly true escape from an Egyptian cult. Lovecraft lost the only copy on the way to his own wedding, and spent much of his honeymoon rewriting it with his wife's help.
ZLNR TIL that for a science fair experiment in 1969, a 14 year old scientist used genes to change chicken feathers from white to partially black, which his teacher said was playing God.