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TIL the cartoon Mucha Lucha was the first TV-aired series made entirely with Adobe Flash

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VonD TIL The film ‘Fantasia’ came about after the ambitious Walt Disney overspent on short The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by hiring revered conductor Leopold Stokowski to handle the score. Rather than writing off the debt, Disney decided to spend more by making a whole feature.
Ovye TIL Handwriting has been deemed a “useless skill” in Finland and will no longer be taught to children. Instead, typing will be taught.
0jrj Til there was a man who determined such advanced mathematics 100 years ago that it took until recently for the scientific community to understand it, and it is now a part of string theory. He had no college degree and failed out of college because he was too focused on actually doing things.
ne0oo TIL in 52.5% of NBA games, the team that wins the tip wins the game
16ww7 TIL that when pop group The Association released their single "Cherish" in 1966, it was 3:15, when at the time radio stations wouldn't play songs over three minutes. The producer listed it as 3:00 anyway, and it went on to become a #1 hit