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

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er8b TIL President Grover Cleveland avoided the draft by paying a Polish immigrant to fight in his place during the Civil War.
ANwJx TIL: Unlike humans, chickens bruise a greenish color
DpWe TIL Ben Franklin wrote a scientific essay about farts called “Fart Proudly”
b9wvZ TIL that a sports writer wrote a rude and snarky article about the WNBA even though he had never been to a game. He was confronted by a WNBA star who chided him and invited him to watch her play. Two years later they were married.
Barb TIL, in the 1850’s, the South African Xhosa tribe had a teenage prophet who claimed all crops had to be burned and all cattle be killed, so that the spirits can sweep the British settlers to sea. 300k-400k cattle were killed, tragically resulting in famine that even caused cannibalism.