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P1meV TIL When the Addams Family were introduced in 1938 as a single panel comic strip, they had no names. It wouldn’t be until nearly 30 years later that they received names, for the 1964 TV show. Even their last name wasn’t their’s at first. It was just the creator’s, Charles Addams.
x6pa5 TIL New Zealand is the only country that’s allowed to put Hobbit-related images on their currency
LZgd TIL that Disney World in Orlando is roughly the size of San Francisco
vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.
x61Eo TIL that in 1894 an elephant in malaysia charged into a moving train to defend its herd. the train derailed and 2 people were killed.