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TIL Disney animated movies won the Academy Award for Best Original Song 5 times from 1989 - 1995. (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas)

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m14rv TIL sea turtle gender is determined by the temperature of the incubation. Boys are literally cool while girls are hot!
PYneV TIL The ratio of people using email for fun versus those using it for work has flipped since the 1990s. Many people nowadays dread email "because it is a conduit for unwanted advertising, a wide range of spam, and flat out attempts to scam or ‘phish’ us”
woGY TIL Omar bin Laden (Osama’s son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because “Omar failed to provide his father’s permanent address”
9w7ap TIL that astronomers regularly observe mysterious lights and temporary changes in structure on the surface of the moon. "Transient lunar phenomena" have not been fully explained, and are almost never observed at two different places on Earth at the same time.
bodE TIL that NASA did not actually spend $12 billion on a Space Pen while the Russians used a pencil.