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TIL Cinderella Castle at Tokyo Disneyland was once home to the Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour, an attraction involving encounters with classic Disney villains. This featured a finale with The Horned King from The Black Cauldron, making it one of the only uses of that movie in Disney Parks.

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ZpJWG TIL 'The Democratic Review', published between ~1837 and 1859, was a progressive/liberal periodical that included essays by Browning, Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau, was also the first to use the term and advocate "manifest destiny".
rR5G4 TIL the WWII sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff resulted in more than 6 times the number of deaths suffered by the Titantic sinking, including ~5000 children
xV4QD TIL that in an attempt to resist the reintroduction slavery by napoleon. In Guadeloupe, after finding out that he wont win the battle he and hundreds of his followers blew themselves up by igniting there gunpowder stores, killing many French troops in the process.
6EVxQ TIL that 1/3 of cats have no reaction to catnip. Many cats that don't respond to catnip do respond to honeysuckle wood. Honeysuckle contains a chemical that is similar to the active ingredient in catnip. Most likely, it is this substance that puts cats into a delightful, temporarily altered state.
a80db TIL that unlike knitwears, crochet products can't be mass produced. There are little to no machines that can do it. That means every crochet product you see on the market are handmade..by companies who exploit workers for cheap labor.