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TIL that the city of Cloud Cuckoo Land in The LEGO Movie is likely a reference to the 414 BCE Athenian Play The Birds in which a man convinces birds to build a city in the sky

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ZpXl4 TIL there were people who 'danced themselves to death' in 1518
OwY4 TIL Elephants are compassionate toward the weak and altruistic toward other species
1Z0r TIL at least 310 schools in the U.S. are receiving tens of millions of dollars in public funding through school voucher programs to teach creationism.
16oKD TIL that, until 2003, the French military provided 'mobile brothels' to troops on the frontline of world wars, among other conflicts
oBVgr TIL that tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and hue is how much red, blue and yellow it has.