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TIL the last 24 remaining members of a species of giant stick insect were found under a bush on a remote spike of rock off australia

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mxg5P TIL that Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (1938) was one of the first sound cartoons. Mickey was voiced by Walt Disney himself.
gMQ64 Today I learned there was a third US political party formed my Teddy Roosevelt called the Progressive Party. It was also known as the “bull moose party”
QKRa TIL that if your BIOS was made by Award/Unicore after 1997, there’s a good chance that it’s set to make the PC speaker play either Beethoven’s “Für Elise” or "It’s a Small World (after all)” if the CPU fan fails.
7ERP TIL Chinese infants were used in performance-enhancement pills
69vAw TILin the movie Lord of War , they purchased 3000 actual guns for the production because it was less expensive than buying props and they could resell the guns later. Additionally, they leased 50 tanks that were only available for a brief period because the source had to sell them to Libya later.