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TIL that Starbucks was a dismal failure in Australia…

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woOkY TIL about Superfetation, when someone becomes pregnant while already pregnant
e0eoD TIL that just one minute prior to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, US Planes dropped an unsigned letter over the city addressed to professor Ryokichi Sagane, who had studied with three of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, urging him to tell the public about the danger of the bombs.
4QGR TIL The scene in Spiderman (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.
R5Zlj TIL: "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" was banned in China in 2020 after players used its customization features to share political messages, including support for Hong Kong independence.
kOXg4 TIL that "Cult Toons", those crazy 'remixes' of Hanna-Barbera cartoons with blaxploitation and martial arts movies which were on Cartoon Network at the end of the 90s, were produced in the UK.