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TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses

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e0Qob TIL Tencent owns 9% of Spotify. With the two partnering on Tencent Music in China
J5pB TIL of Harvard Observatory astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt; given the boring job of examining the luminosity of stars in thousands of photos, she discovered how to measure the distance between the Earth and faraway galaxies. At the time, she was not allowed to operate Harvard’s telescope.
KYOPw TIL that a day before Hitler’s suicide, he ordered a cyanide pill be given to his dog Blondi (who died as a result) to test its potency before he used it.
1jV7 TIL A report found that, for every $1 invested in the US National Park Service, the American public receives $4 in economic value.
8a6P TIL Jon Stewart’s brother Larry is the COO of the New York Stock Exchange