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TIL after completing his short film Frankenweenie, Disney fired filmmaker Tim Burton for spending the company's resources on a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see. Decades later, he remade the film as a feature-length stop motion film, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

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X0jOP Til the opium wars started because China wanted to stop the drugs coming in
ANO7x TIL there’s a house in NY that is legally haunted “and seller must inform the purchaser of the haunting.”
OkmR TIL 16% of the world’s population, 1.1 billion are atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion
loKEN TIL Contrary to everything Jurassic park taught me. Velociraptor was about the size of a modern domesticated Turkey, had feathers and would have had trouble taking down a poodle.
EgY4X TIL that the word "tornado" was banned in 1886 by the U.S. Army Signal Corps when issuing weather forecasts for fear of inducing panic in the public. The ban ended in 1952 when the Weather Bureau issued the first Tornado Watch.