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TIL Zildjian (cymbal company) is almost 400 years old
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TIL shepherds in Gascony, France traditionally wore stilts called tchangues (“big legs”) that allowed them to walk rapidly on marshy ground.
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TIL that only the actors and characters for The Skipper, Gilligan and the Howells were in the Pilot episode; Mary Ann, Ginger and The Professor had different actors and characters when the show aired.
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TIL by 2019 the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida had been the world's most visited theme park for 13 consecutive years.
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TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.
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TIL when Patrick Stewart went bald at 19, “I believed that no woman would ever be interested in me again. I prepared myself for the reality that a large part of my life was over.”