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TIL the writer of the live action Dragon Ball film apologized for how bad it was

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7rvdX TIL: The song "Come Dancing" by the Kinks was inspired by lead-singer Ray Davies' memories of his older sister, Rene, who suffered a fatal heart attack at age 31 while dancing at the Lyceum ballroom.
M77xB TIL evidence of the world’s oldest forest, dating back 385 million years, has been discovered in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, according to a new study published in Current Biology.
0dee5 TIL the term "Seeing Eye Dog" only applies if the dog was trained by the non-profit group "The Seeing Eye" of Morristown, New Jersey. If the dog wasn't trained there, it is simply referred to as a "guide dog".
0XyA TIL the British empire was completely connected by telegraph via underwater cables.
xQMD TIL that Togo the sled dog, who was part of the same mission to bring medicine to Nome, Alaska as the famous Balto, actually did the lion’s share of the work. Balto ran the last 55-miles of the journey, while Togo’s journey was the longest by 200 miles.