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TIL Gilbert Gottfried was fired from voicing the Aflac duck after he tweeted out a series of jokes about the earthquake disaster of Japan in 2011. Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan.

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Egy4o TIL comedian Andy Kaufman was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame last year.
e6m6 TIL there’s only one wild herd of West African Giraffes in the world.
VZ8G TIL: In 1911, Wolves attacked a traveling wedding party in Russia, consisting of 120 people. Only 2 survived.
oRR5r TIL that Disney doesn't own the copyright to their theme tune, "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio. The rights to that song, as well as several other Disney songs, were sold in 1933 to a music publisher because Disney "had no means of commercially exploiting" them at the time.
eJG4 TIL in 2014 a Chinese company built 10 one-story homes in 24 hours using 3D printing technology. Each 2,100 square-foot building costs less than $5,000 to construct. The builder hopes the company’s 3D-printing technology will one day be used to build skyscrapers.