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TIL in the book ‘Stuart Little’, Stuart was born from his human mother as a mouse, rather than adopted, as the movie adaptation depicted.

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Bkmx TIL that the Hindenburg disaster had more survivors than victims, wasn’t the deadliest airship accident at the time, and the emotional “Oh, the humanity!” audio report wasn’t live, but was a radio broadcast from later that night, and subsequently overlaid on the newsreel videos after the fact
4XvGg TIL: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who is often portrayed as the epitome of Mexican machismo, never drank alcohol. He actually was so worried about alcoholism spreading in Mexico, that he banned alcohol from his province of Chihuahua.
BrOjx TIL the word "penguin" is of Welsh origin, and came into use as a synonym for the great auk, another flightless bird which is not closely related to penguins.
X0m7X TIL, that 7/11 America is owned by 7&i holdings a corporation made up of 7/11 Japan, Ito-Yokado and Denny's Japan.
ymkM TIL that the movie The Departed was a remake of the Hong-Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, and was very loyal to the source material.