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TIL in Spirited Away, Miyazaki based the river spirit on his own experience of cleaning a polluted river

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EgZeo TIL in 2001 MTV taped a pilot called “Dude, This Sucks”, where two team captains would do stunts to win money. In the second half two 13 year old girls were sprayed with feces by grown men. There was a lawsuit and the game show was never aired.
akA9 TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada
0aEN TIL small number of female prostitutes in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS, though they often have sex with infected men.
e0RY6 TIL a man falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent most of his time at the library to study law and prove his innocence, and then became a lawyer to help free other people who have been falsely convicted.
OowGL TIL that the Halifax Explosion was one of the reasons for the establishment of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.