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TIL while Lion King(1994) earned $2 billion in box office and home media, it earned $3 billion and $8 billion in merchandising and stage adatation respectively.

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lmQa TIL: There are more than 450 different english translations of the bible. They all say things differently and It has been discovered that there are translation errors in all the popular english versions. Many christians may have beliefs based off a mistranslation.
gMExD TIL that, during their years in the White House, President Herbert Hoover & his wife, First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, were known to communicate with each other in Mandarin Chinese at times when they wished to foil eavesdroppers & keep their conversations private.
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