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

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9YEXM TIL wild hogs are immune to most poisonous snakes.
jNvvX TIL: Gregory the Great- 6th Century Pope (and Saint) wrote of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, despite there being no record of this in Scripture. Contemporary scholars agree that Mary Magdalene was likely an upper class woman who supported Jesus Christ- but not necessarily a prostitute.
Gdn7 TIL that black tea, green tea, white tea, and oolong tea all come from the same tea plant but simply are aged and processed differently
v14nR TIL that I accidentally set a "World Record" for pinching 500 candle wicks with my fingers. It was a stupid idea that turned out to be a first for world records.
jXxj TIL a gravitational slingshot (of say a space probe) robs the host planet of a very small amount of orbital velocity. Do it enough times and you’d cause said planet to crash into the Sun.