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TIL that Nelvana did dubbed all 70 episodes of Cardcaptors in Canada and Australia and that Kids WB was the one that cut it down to 39 episodes in the US.

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1aD4X TIL During the 1960s the US government sprayed chemical weapons throughout poor neighborhoods of St. Louis without the residents knowledge as part of a chemical weapons test.
Y7mo7 TIL: A wealthy stock trader was sentenced in 2017 after a man he hired to dig a secret tunnel to a nuclear bunker died a fiery death. He made him wear blackout glasses, spoofed the wifi, and lowers a bucket for his tunnel guy to relieve himself for days at a time to keep the location secret.
4jL5 TIL David Bowie used to secretly respond to fans on message boards under the nickname ‘Sailor’.
QJJQE TIL about Misha Osipov, the chessplayer who challenged Karpov when he was 3 years old and defeated the grandmaster Averbakh at age 4
6EjmJ TIL that a 1964 earthquake liquified the glacial soil around Valdez, Alaska, causing an underwater landslide and tsunami. Roughly half the town (including the soil it was built on) was washed out to sea. The current site of the city is 4 miles away.