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TIL that according to Rotten Tomatoes, the Toy Story trilogy is the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time.

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9Y4Wm TIL about 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.
ADn8a Today I learned that at the end of the Mexican-American War, there was a popular movement in the US to annex All of Mexico. It was opposed by Congress, mainly because Mexico wasn't white enough.
W7keX TIL A killing committed on an iceberg outside of any country's territorial waters led to such a massive kerfuffle over the questions of jurisdiction and who had the right to try the defendant that it is being examined as a possible case study in the event murder occurs in outer space.
oRn0W TIL that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show
awnM0 TIL the largest art heist in history was completed in 1990 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, totaling 13 paintings worth $500M. To this day, all of the empty frames are still hanging, acting as placeholders until the pieces are returned.