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TIL most of the Disney producers had no faith in The Lion King, saying, “I don’t know who is going to want to watch that one.”

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11yW TIL Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks
WQLB TIL that when 6-year old Adam Walsh (the son of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh) was murdered in 1981, the police investigation was so inept that they lost the bloodstained carpet from the suspect’s Cadillac, the machete used to decapitate Walsh, and eventually, the car itself.
LQ0NQ TIL Mothers Having Fewer Children is the Primary Cause of Changes in Population Growth
d4Nd TIL When you receive a kidney transplant, they leave in the existing kidneys and just add the new one.
x4Nb TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf