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TIL Disney makes twice as much money from their theme parks than what they make from their actual movies.

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rZ5W TIL scientists believe that the primary cause of a puzzling decline in bee population is neonicotinoid pesticides. The pesticides–banned in Europe since 2013–decrease the sperm count of male bees by nearly 40 percent, as well as cutting their lifespan
oDL7 TIL that if a Belgian family has seven sons or daughters in succession, the king/queen becomes godfather/godmother of the child and it receives royal gifts. This still happens a few times per year.
neXar TIL that X-Men writer Chris Claremont intended the character Destiny to be the lover of Mystique, a shape shifter, and had originally intended for Destiny and Mystique to be Nightcrawler's biological parents, with Mystique taking the form of a man for the conception
YKPB TIL Hong Kong’s richest man and one of the richest men in the world is named Ka-Shing
am1b TIL while Paul Revere had a famous 15 mile ride to alert the colonists of the British invasion, Israel Bissel rode 345miles starting that same night warning every town from Boston to New York to Philadelphia that the war had begun.