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TIL in 2001 Shrek premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was the first animated film to compete since 1953.

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N75eQ TIL that Adolf Hitler's remains were exhumed in the 1970s and incinerated. The ashes were flushed into the city's sewage system
rlld TIL: Gold medals on 2014 olympics will have bits of russian meteorite
69ma8 TIL the 1908 Tunguska event flattened over 80 million trees across 830 square miles in Siberia, caused by an asteroid explosion in the atmosphere that left no impact crater.
6EY6w TIL About "Cargo Cults", which are religions that are formed from natives seeing bases being built in their areas during WW2, after the war ended and everything was abandoned, the natives would try and replicate the soldiers during ceremonies, such as by marching, and signaling planes to land
1a5d7 TIL the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is the 5th largest employer in the world with 1.7 million employees - after McDonald's, Walmart, China's People's Liberation Army and the US Dept. Of Defense*