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TIL “Oh Yeah! Cartoons” remains TV’s biggest animation development program ever, giving several dozen filmmakers the chance to create nearly 100 seven-minute cartoons. The series eventually yielded three dedicated half-hour spin-offs: The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone & My Life as a Teenage Robot.

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VD9p TIL Until 1735 no new metals had been discovered since prehistoric times; iron, copper, silver, gold, zinc, mercury, tin, lead & bismuth. When Georg Brandt recognised a tenth, Cobalt, he became the first ever known person to discover a metal. For thousands of years cobalt was mistaken for bismuth.
5wRR TIL That the idea of “slow metabolism” causing obesity is a myth and it is “innate laziness” or lower levels of Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) that causes weight gain
5VDoB TIL Ryan Island is the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest freshwater lake in the world.
BgX4x TIL The US military sprayed 73 million liters of Agent Orange on Vietnam and was originally called Operation Hades. US soldiers, unaware of the dangers, sometimes showered in the empty 55-gallon drums, used them to store food, and repurposed them as barbecue pits.
69Qam TIL the British Antarctic Territory has its own laws, courts (including a Supreme Court), and police. There are currently 28 Orders and Ordinances; anything not covered by them is governed by English law.