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TIL America is still in a state of emergency from 9/11

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yQy6V TIL that LA libraries started "The Great Read Away" program that allows kids to read books to clear their late fees. In the first six months of the program over 3,500 previously "locked accounts" had been cleared, and now 80% of parents are more likely to let their kids go to the library.
pYwYO TIL that one of the big challenge faced by the animators of The little mermaid(1989) was making Ariel's hair move properly in underwater. They solved this by modelling her hair based on astronaut Sally Ride's hair in zero gravity conditions
4Jw TIL Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist-mother to read her scripts and deliver her analysis of the psychological motivation of the character Helena is to play.
A4bl TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”
Z5Yv TIL that in the United States, Asians earn the highest average salary by race. (repost-self)