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TIL that in non-english speaking countries Dora the Explorer actually teaches english and not spanish

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kLY7 TIL the guy who played Scotty in Star Trek shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
1PG7 TIL Fiat’s original car factory was designed so that each car would progress upwards story by story as it was assembled until it was finalized at the top, where it would be tested on a rooftop test track.
N7JGQ TIL As a personal favor to “a friend”, just hours before he left office, Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Esteban Núñez’s sentence from 16 to 7 years. Against protocol, he didn't inform the victim's family nor the prosecutors about the commutation. They learned about it in a call from a reporter
5YMN8 TIL in 1968, a student at UPenn announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm. Thousands turned up to protest, were handed a leaflet reading: Congratulations on your anti-napalm protest. You saved the life of a dog. Now, how about saving the lives of tens of thousands of people in Vietnam.
eBQJ TIL Bill Murray says that he only agreed to make Garfield because he thought the script was written by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country For Old Men). It wasn’t. It was written by Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Daddy Day Camp.