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TIL Disney currently owns 12 of the 32 highest-grossing media franchises of all-time

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wL1jE TIL that in order to argue before the US Supreme Court, you must be accepted by the Supreme Court Bar which has no test—but you do need to be sponsored by two existing members and "be of good moral and professional character," much like a country club
VMGkp TIL there was a recurring problem in Victorian times where explosions would ignite in sewers and bathrooms as a result of methane gas buildup from human waste.
jNe6M TIL that after marathoning Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins wrote Bryan Cranston a fan letter, saying (among other things) "Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever."
vPaML TIL that Évariste Galois, a math prodigy who revolutionized group theory in his teens and got a whole mathematical field named after himself, died of the wounds suffered from a duel over a woman. He was only 20.
KOG0J TIL that Hawaii's state bird, a goose known locally as the nēnē, was at one point down to a population of only 30 in the wild. After 60 years of conservation efforts to restore the population, the nēnē have rebounded and there are now roughly 2,800 birds roaming the islands.