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TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little.

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KYvoB TIL that Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal who did barbaric medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, survived WW2. In 1979, he drowned in Brazil, where his skeleton is now used as an educational aid at medical school.
0n0p TIL the only thing preventing an American from driving all the way to Argentina is a short strip of Jungle in Panama called the Darien Gap
gM5x7 TIL that a man named William Carver started a horse diving exhibition in the early 1900’s, where horses would leap off a 40 foot tower into a pool of water.
7Djx TIL the African nation of Eritrea is so repressive, residents have to get a special permit to have more than 2 guests over for dinner; if they fail to do so, their dinner is considered an illegal gathering and they may be jailed
loeg1 TIL of the color Mummy Brown. First made in the 16th and 17th centuries, this rich brown pigment was created by mixing both human and feline mummy crumbles with white pitch and myrrh.