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TIL Walt Disney’s last written words were “Kurt Russell”-and no one knows why. Kurt Russell was a child-actor working for Disney at the time, having just signed a ten year contract with the studio.

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Gd94 TIL that “slut shaming” is mostly performed by women. According to the New York Times, “studies have shown that the more attractive an adolescent girl or woman is, the more likely she is to become a target for indirect aggression from her female peers”.
x4mk TIL that the rightful emperor of China head of the Qing Dynasty, Lord of Ten Thousand Years, Son of Heaven, and Imperial Highness of the Present Time works in local politics, and is a member of a local council
Kx5G TIL the word “emoji” has no connection to “emotion.” It comes from japanese “e-,” meaning picture, and “moji,” meaning “character.”
ne5GP TIL of Dingo Pictures, a German animation studio infamous for creating traditionally-animated cartoons plagiarizing the works of Disney, Pixar, Don Bluth, and DreamWorks throughout the 90s and early 2000s
b9Xm9 TIL that it takes 243 Earth-days for Venus to rotate about its axis, yet it takes 225 Earth-days for Venus to orbit the sun. That means that, on Venus, a day takes longer than a year.