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TIL that Toy Story was the first entirely computer-animated feature film

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8eBdV TIL the longest span between appearances in a major league baseball game was 22 years and 2 days
E1ZKd TIL Axolotls can regenerate limbs, organs and even parts of the brain. They are also 1000x more resistant to cancer than mammals. Despite this, they are critically endangered and almost extinct in the wild.
VBdNp TIL: New York had a secret CIA base disguised as an IRS office. It was in the World Trade Centre tower 7 that fell on 9/11
W79Ao TIL that in 2021, before a Quebec City family-run shoe store closed, which had operated since 1936, a hidden door was found behind a shelving unit. Upon opening the door, the family discovered rows and rows of boxes of shoes that were manufactured sometime around the 1960s.
78NYX TIL “wandering star” is another name for the planets visible to the naked eye because they “wander” across the sky relative to the fixed backdrop of stars