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TIL Disney announced a live action Jungle Cruise movie in 2011 that was going to star Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, which never happened.

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VBWL4 TIL Claudius Ptolemy made a list of the angle in water for each number of different angle in air, as recorded on a table from 140 AD. But it was not until 1621 when Willebrord Snell found the rule connecting the two angles: sinθi=nsinθr
RXEw TIL that people who spend money to buy themselves more free time are happier.
wooYo TIL of the Goa Inquisition in Portuguese India which enforced Catholic Orthodoxy from 1561 to 1812. Primary targets were Hindus who were forced to convert under imprisonment and starvation. All records were destroyed by the Portuguese in 1812 and exact number of casualties still remain unknown today
DQ7Ge TIL that people used to eat mummies
gr7E4 TIL that Tracey Ullman, whose self-titled show is the show that originally spawned The Simpsons, is the first British woman with her own American sketch show.