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TIL Many people at Disney didn’t think The Lion King would be a success. It is the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history.

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Or0a TIL When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment
kJo7 TIL: Bugs Bunny’s nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable’s character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full.
jXVN TIL The three warning sings of future psychopathic behavior are 1) animal torture, 2) prolonged bed-wetting, and 3) juvenile pyromania. Criminologists call these symptoms “The Triad.”
Q9ya TIL In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, invested in a geospatial data visualization company named Keyhole, which was sold to Google in 2004 and later became the basis for Google Earth.
lowg5 TIL towards the end of WW2 Herman Goering had become so addicted to para-codeine that he was travelling with almost the entire world’s supply