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TIL The whole reason Hansel and Gretel were lost in the forest is because their stepmother intentionally abandoned them there

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NXxaQ TIL Gotham City from Batman is named after an English village known for being full of fools; in legend, in order to avoid a visit from the king, the villagers carried out absurd tasks, such as drowning an eel in water, to convince the king’s messengers they were imbeciles
D1BvY TIL that in preparation for animating WALL-E, the film's story crew and animation crew would watch a Buster Keaton film and a Charlie Chaplin film every day for almost a year, to be able to convey emotions silently and effectively
nZmb TIL Doctors didn’t wear white coats till the late 1800s. Due to swift advancement in medicine, the public thought discoveries of new antiseptics & the spreading of disease were just mysticism & deceit. In response, doctors adopted the white lab coats to represent a fresh start for the medical field
Oo0ae TIL that in 1998, the face of Jesus Christ appeared on the side of a grocery store in South America and attracted hundreds of worshippers. A rainstorm revealed that the visage was nothing more than a poster of Willie Nelson that had been painted over.
ZpKL4 TIL In his original concept drawings for Oscar the Grouch, creator Jim Henson imagined a magenta monster. Due to the limitations of early color television, Oscar was redesigned with orange fur for his premiere on the first season of Sesame Street in 1969, and changed to green for the second season.