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TIL The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was paid a salary that was higher than the actors who played the Munchkins

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ne5GP TIL of Dingo Pictures, a German animation studio infamous for creating traditionally-animated cartoons plagiarizing the works of Disney, Pixar, Don Bluth, and DreamWorks throughout the 90s and early 2000s
p8NXb TIL The first purpose-built (and large-scale produced) drone was the product of Reginald Denny. He served with the British Royal Flying Corps during World War I, and after the war, in 1919, emigrated to the United States to seek his fortunes in Hollywood as an actor.
gnj4 TIL Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong’s cranky old grandfather, was actually the original antagonist from the 1981 arcade game
PYELn TIL that Fema sometimes measures disasters impact using a thing called the waffle house index. This is because there are so many of them and they have the unique ability to operate completely off gas for power/heat/cook. So if the waffle house is closed then its tantamount to complete disaster!
P1klG TIL China made a magnet that produces a magnetic field 800k times stronger than Earth's magnetic field.