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TIL that while Nazis killed 6 million Jews in WW2, the Imperial Japanese slaughtered at least 23 million Chinese

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D18nY TIL since The Lion King's tie-in book series, Six New Adventures, was released before the film's production ended, in the books Simba has a cub that he canonically does not have in the film's universe.
N7nJJ TIL that the phrase 'Until the Bitter End' comes from the frame that a ships anchor was connected to (the bitts), so the 'bitter end' was the last bit of rope that attached it to the ship. This was designed to break and release the anchor if it was in free fall to stop it ripping out the ships deck.
ZmJR TIL the original bikini swimsuit was named after the then-recent Bikini Atoll nuclear test because the inventor expected the swimsuit to be “equally explosive”
R7lP1 TIL about Greg Nemitz, a man which claimed onwnership about the asteroid 433 EROS in 1993 and then when NASA landed a probe on the same asteroid he sent a bill of 20 dollars to NASA about parking on his property.
Bg7xW TIL Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters movies, was rejected from a role in the Ghostbusters cartoons because they thought he didn't sound like Winston Zeddemore