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TIL the years-long legal battle between the owners of Hello Kitty and Miffy ended after the Japanese tsunami... both parties agreed to immediately drop the case and donate their anticipated legal fees to the Tsunami Relief Effort

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8xPZ TIL of the 2003 Iranian film, Crimson Gold. The lead role of a suicidal, schizophrenic pizza delivery man was played by an actual paranoid schizophrenic pizza delivery man, who had never acted before. The film was banned in Iran for being “too dark”.
X5rD TIL We actually live about 80 milliseconds in the past because that’s how long it takes our brains to process information.
lo81G TIL about Priceville. A small community founded in the 1800s by African-Americans not far north from what is now Toronto. It was mysteriously emptied of its black residents, its cemetery bulldozed, and the records of interracial marriages that occured there covered up.
KOjXE TIL that Sir Ian McKellen turned down the role of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter franchise as he felt it would be inappropriate after the previous actor, Richard Harris, called him a 'dreadful actor'
wokd7 TIL when insects shed Theo skin, they secrete compounds to protect themselves from infection as their new exoskeleton hardens. Researchers are investigating these compounds as a source of new antibiotics and immune stimulants.