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TIL that the artist who made Scooby-Doo found desirable traits that you’d look for in a top level show dog and drew Scooby-Doo to represent the opposite.

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XEQMX TIL that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was patterned heavily after Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Many of the lines Khan gives are copied or otherwise patterned after Ahab's while Khan himself obsesses over his personal white whale, the Enterprise and her captain.
9YORB TIL a recent meme supposedly showing a soldier carrying a donkey through a minefield in World War II was actually taken in 1958 and has nothing to do with minefields.
rRAno TIL there’s an Australian street artist named “Wanksy” who draws large penises on potholes in order to convince the city council to fix them.
bdB7 TIL Mao Zedong, in a power-play against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in 1958, forced him to conduct a meeting in a pool. 200+ pound Khrushchev, who could not swim, was forced to wear floaters in the kiddie side of the pool while Mao swam laps and conducted the meeting.
l7RlG TIL that in many places (in this case specifically, Ontario), the distance to a city on a highway sign isn't to the city limits; it's the distance to the seat of government (usually city hall) by the shortest route.