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TIL that Disney World has not one, but TWO abandoned parks

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Z84Aa TIL the last successful bayonet charge was in 2011 by the British Army against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Oo4n7 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
dDkZ9 TIL the founder of TGI Fridays opened the first location in Manhattan in 1965 because he was single and wanted to create a place to meet women, especially airline stewardesses and fashion models. TGI Fridays was also one of the first to use promotions such as ladies' night
x6XrD TIL Edmonton built an experimental suburban community with innovative street design in the 1980s over land that used to contain a garbage dump. It's estimated about 85 per cent of the world's cultures are represented there
6nmW TIL 12 Capuchin monkeys were given one token a day to be used toward buying fruit. Not long after the study began, one monkey was observed giving his token to a female monkey in exchange for sex. The token was then handed over and immediately used to buy a grape.