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Til: There used to be real human remains in Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride

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GYxp4 TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
6wJl TIL that when Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first European settlement in 1938, officials tried to hide the fact that it was a prison colony by using the terms “transportees” or “deportees” instead of “convicts”
4Xdm5 TIL That Leonardo Da Vinci once conducted an experiment to understand the flow of blood through the valves of the heart, by pouring hot wax into one, making a mould of thin glass from the cast, and then pumping water mixed with seeds through it. He saw how a heart actually regulates itself.
WbVA TIL that a Soviet scientist named Dmitriy Belyayev has successfully domesticated foxes by selective breeding, and the foxed became more and more dog-like with each following generation.
d8D4B TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as...". The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."