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TIL in the original novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Dorothy wore silver shoes. They used Ruby slippers in the movie to take advantage of the new Technicolor film.

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69ogQ TIL that a bandicoot is an actual animal and not a name made up for the Crash Bandicoot series.
e0gN6 TIL Susan Travers, WW2 and Indochina War veteran, is the only woman to have been formally enrolled in the French Foreign Legion.
1aelP TIL ice blocks are cut from frozen lakes, packed in sawdust and sold and delivered door to door before the invention of refrigerators
MgbV TIL That Irena Sendler was a remarkable woman who defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Nazis eventually discovered her activities, tortured her brutally, and sentenced her to death, but she managed to evade execution and survive the war.
R7dpj TIL the first street fight caught on camera was in Halifax, England - 1901