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TIL there are no bridges across the Amazon River

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0bEj TIL there is a silver coin with Superman on the heads side that is legal tender in Canada.
ANa6x TIL that Fantasmagorie (French word for phantasmagoria) was the first animated cartoon film in history produced by French cartoonist Emile Cohl in 1908.
dDVWd TIL that Billy Idol was James Cameron’s First Choice for the T-1000 Character but wasn’t cast because he was in a motorcycle accident that almost cost him his leg.
gMxv4 TIL Dali began selling signed blank sheets of canvas, originally intended as lithographs, to the market, allowing for counterfeiting and forgeries. Around 350,000 authentic Dali blank sheet signatures were released, but in 2016 over 12,000 fakes were seized, one which was estimated at $6.75 million.
0wQap TIL before the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant struggled financially after leaving the military to start a family, working in fields with his wife's family's slaves which was uncommon, but after acquiring a slave, William Jones, he gave him his freedom unconditionally instead of selling him for profit.