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TIL the Mall of America is owned by Canadians

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yQkx8 TIL Chinese American Tyrus Wong was the lead artist for Disney's Bambi. His background paintings for Bambi were inspired by Song dynasty classical Chinese paintings. He was fired from Disney studio due to a strike and his full contribution to the film was largely unknown for several decades
NrA8 TIL there is a cafe in France which charges €7 a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to wait staff
wow7M TIL it's estimated that half of the current world population is alive because we are able to make nitrogen fertilizer at an industrial scale using the method developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch.
PYY9O TIL The Last King of Romania who reigned from 1927 to 1930 is still alive
16kQ8 TIL about Jacques Tits, a French Mathematician who worked in group theory and incidence geometry, and is famous introducing the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric in mathematics.