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TIL that Salvador Dali and Walt Disney collaborated in 1946 to create 6 min master piece “Destino” the animation

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bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building
x61Go TIL roly polies are capable of removing toxic metal ions from soil by taking in heavy metals such as copper, zinc, lead and cadmium which they crystallize into spherical deposits in the midgut
neDa7 TIL that humans have the same amount of hair as gorillas and other primates, ours is just shorter and thinner
PYdog TIL Airbnb got it's name because it used to be an air mattress company called Air Mattress B&B.
wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.