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TIL the song "Be Our Guest" in 1991's Beauty and the Beast was originally intended for Belle's father Maurice. However, it was rewritten and re-animated to be focused on Belle.

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N77G1 TIL the Dungan people of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan speak Chinese but use a Cyrillic alphabet because they were under Soviet rule before.
Y8Pv TIL of a Russian all-female bomber unit flying biplanes against the Germans in WW2. While two pilots distracted the searchlights, a third would cut her engines and glide in to deliver her bombs; 23,000 missions were flown and the enemy dubbed them “Night Witches”
0de9R TIL that in 1956, songwriter Roger Miller was driving along and saw a sign on the side of a barn, ""Trailers for sale or rent". That became the first line of his new song, "King of the Road", which hit #1 on the country chart, #1 on the easy listening chart, and #4 on the Hot 100 for that year.
x6LED TIL German nationalists in the 1930s created their own version of physics because real physics was too Jewish.
gMR49 TIL about the Glirarium, a Roman jar with holes in it, made for keeping and forcing mice to hibernate for a while, which made them fatter before eating them, making them more tasteful