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TIL that Big Hero 6 is actually a Marvel IP. Disney selected it because of how obscure it was which gave them the freedom to make their own version of it.

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6rlw TIL that Art Garfunkel likes really long walks. So much so that from 1983 to 1997, he walked from NYC to the Pacific Coast of Washington State with 40 different short breaks. In 1998, he began a walk across Europe which he completed in 2011 with Northern Greece.
nneG TIL that the motto for the Air Force Technical Applications Center is “In God we trust, all others we monitor”
v11m7 TIL that without the usage of levees or dams, over two thirds of the Netherlands would be flooded by the North Sea
n8pP TIL Tetris was originally created as a simple game to test the capabilities of new Soviet hardware. This is the original version.
XEVyQ TIL that the Rainbow Eucalyptus tree has multi-coloured streaks on its trunk that comes from patches of outer bark that are shed annually at different times, showing the bright-green inner bark. This then darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon tones.