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TIL The creators of The Lion King originally wanted to reunite Cheech and Chong as the hyenas. Cheech accepted the role but Chong was not available. His role would later be voiced by Whoopi Goldberg

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R7Pow TIL Botanist Robert Brown was not the first who discovered Brownian motion (It was Jan Ingenhousz) and Einstien was not the first who described it. But Einstien used Brownian motion to calculate the size of an atom.
jBpa TIL ‘Public School’ has the Opposite Meaning in the U.K. compared to the U.S.
DQxvp TIL in 2020 Poland banned all flights from Andorra due to Covid. They later rescinded the ban upon realizing Andorra does not have an airport.
PYGYV TIL During WW2 Ireland put up over eighty signs of the word Eire (Ireland in the Irish language) around its coast to warn bombers they were flying over a neutral country.
XRaQ TIL A man who suffered from extreme OCD attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head…he survived and the bullet lodged in the part of the brain where OCD originates thus curing him.