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TIL that Disney's 'A Bug's Life' was inspired by the Aesop fable 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' were the Grasshopper (who has spent all summer singing) begs the Ant for food (who has spent all summer storing it) when winter arrives, but he is refused

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R5wp8 TIL of Rasa von Werder, popularized female bodybuilding, competing along with Arnold in "Best Body" competitions. She also worked as a stripper and minister, later creating her own church. In 2008 she ended 30 years of religious celibacy because God told her to become a "cougar".
jNpmj Today I learned that Germany actually surrendered twice at the end of the WW2. One being 8th and the other 9th of May. This was due to the fact that Stalin inserted terms to make the Soviet contribution to the victory bigger.
jNXOM TIL of a woman who gave her neighbor a ‘box of sex toys’ to hold on to. 6 months later the neighbor noticed a stench coming from her closet where the box was stored. She finally opened it and found a decomposing severed head inside. It was the original woman’s husband.
0dMvN TIL Super Mario is named after real-life businessman Mario Segale, who was renting out a warehouse to Nintendo. After Nintendo fell far behind on rent, Segale did not evict them but gave them a second chance to come up with the money. Nintendo succeeded and named their main character after him.
7k9x TIL that nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins, according to a report in the Christmas edition of Britain’s BMJ medical journal