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TIL Disney once threatened to sue three daycare centers for painting Disney characters on their walls.

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awQwA TIL: Singer-songwriter James Blunt was a former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army and served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. He was also a pallbearer at the funeral of Queen Mother.
lmga TIL a woman was elected to the US house of representatives in 1916, four years before women won the right to vote nationwide
5YQJR TIL wine contains minute amounts of super heavy water that can be used to determine the age of vintage wines.
vwo8 TIL Verizon developed a special knife that uses pressurized air to slice through lawns so fiber optic lines can be buried. The tool cuts through grass but does not break sprinkler pipes and gas lines.
RGm4 TIL that when Napoleon returned to France from Elba, he approached some of the first troops sent to arrest him and opened his coat, “If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am.” They joined him instead.