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TIL that the Disney film “The Emperor’s New Groove” was originally supposed to be a more dramatic, Lion King-style movie called “Kingdom of the Sun.”

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PYmxw TIL Volcano Surfing or Volcano Boarding, is a sport performed on volcano slopes. Potential dangers include falling off and getting cut by the rough volcanic ash, breathing poisonous gasses, contracting histoplasmosis (otherwise known as 'caver's disease'), or being hit by flying molten lava
P1Ke TIL That a 456lb man underwent a clinically supervised fast for 382 days. Took multivitamins, lost 275lbs, crapped every 40-50 days.
4X6Go TIL in computing, half of a byte is called a nibble
dDmeQ TIL virtually all of the communion wafers that are distributed in churches in the United States are made by a single for-profit company.
1a1g4 TIL it's called Firmware because it exists on the boundary between Hardware and Software