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TIL as well as writing the song, Phil Collins performed “You’ll Be In My Heart” from Tarzan in the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish AND Bulgarian versions of the film.

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dKMB TIL that in Korea and some other Asian countries, when you are born, you are considered one year old and everyone’s age increases one year on New Years. So if you were born on December 29th, on New years day, you will be considered 2 years old.
wowe8 TIL the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was banned from Poland because censors felt it was "pro-German". Ironically enough it was also banned in Nazi Germany for being "anti-German"
e098k TIL: "The Silent Majority" originally meant dead people, as in there's more dead people than living. It was first used in politics in 1919, but didnt become mainstream until used in a book read by Nixon that used "the silent majority" to contrast "the vocal minority."
MeEgb TIL at Willamette Falls a hydro-electric facility was built in 1888. It had a 14-mile long line to Portland, becoming the first long-distance transmission of electricity in the US in 1889. A second station was built on the falls in 1895 and is still operating today (Falls: USA 2nd highest flow rate)
X0ZaD TIL Due to the similarity between the Irish and Ivory Coast flags, when the Ivory Coast athlete Murielle Ahouré won the 2018 world indoor 60-meter dash, she borrowed an Irish flag from a spectator and reversed it.