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TIL that scattering of human ashes at Disneyland and Disney World happens so frequently park employees have a special code to report it for cleanup.

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1aE8W TIL There are currently 44 publicly acknowledged closed cities in Russia. It’s believed that an additional 15 or so closed cities exist in Russia, but their names and locations have not been publicly disclosed
wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.
Ypg1P TIL Bo Jackson was drafted in the first round of the '86 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but refused to sign because he believed that they tried to sabotage his baseball career by purposefully making him ineligible for his senior season.
rNXWw TIL Chris Farley was originally the voice actor of Shrek and almost finished all his lines until his untimely passing in 1997
GA1ZQ TIL that in the 1940s, filmmaker Orson Welles was under investigation by the FBI as they believed he had ties to communist activities because of his film “Citizen Kane”. He was considered such a threat that the FBI had him on a list of people who should be apprehended in case of a national emergency