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TIL Bo Peep was omitted from Toy Story 3 because she would not have survived the incinerator scene, being made of porcelain.

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4knlR TIL Ugandan dictator Idi Amin publicly suggested that he and Tanzanian president Nyerere participate in a boxing match to determine the outcome of the Ugandan Tanzanian war in 1979. This proposal was ignored by Nyerere and Idi Amin was forced into exile.
x67O5 TIL Carville, Louisiana, was home to the United States' first and last leper colony in the continental United States, officially called the National Leprosarium. It operated from 1894 to 1999, providing care and treatment for patients with leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease.
4kRZa TIL Ahmed Gabr set the deepest scuba dive of all time in 2014, reaching a depth of 1,090 feet. He spent almost a decade preparing for the dive, which took only 15 minutes to descend but over 13 hours to ascend back to the surface.
Xa78 TIL the 2014 film “Nightcrawler” was inspired by a photographer named Arthur Fellig, who in the 1930’s, installed a police-band shortwave radio in his car and maintained a complete darkroom in the trunk. He’d often beat authorities to the scene, then sell his gory photos to the tabloids.
9YkvB TIL that Frida Sofia, a 12-year-old girl believed to be trapped in a collapsed school building and who had become a symbol of hope in earthquake-devastated Mexico City last year, turned out "not to exist" following a 30-hour rescue mission.