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TIL that the rights to Peter Pan are owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital and that it is one of very few novels to have had its copyright extended due to the amount of funding it provides the hospital

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MKo7 TIL Oscar the Grouch (SESAME STREET) used to be orange. Jim Henson decided to make him green before the second season of Sesame Street. How did Oscar explain the color change? He said he went on vacation to the very damp Swamp Mushy Muddy and turned green overnight.
mGXo TIL: One of the submersibles used to dive the Titanic was attacked by a swordfish which got trapped in it’s skin causing it to make an emergency surface. They then cooked it for dinner
mbvP TIL Alcohol forms in berries as they ferment with the first frosts, and the birds that gorge on these winter fruits may get drunk more often than we think, scientists say
G9oG TIL there’s an episode of Arthur that teaches censorship on television. For the entirety of the episode the children learn and use curse words toward one another!
Vj9D TIL to obtain tears of the big-eyed lorises, skewers are inserted into the animals anuses and run through their bodies until they exit the mouth, the still-living animals are then roasted over a fire and the tears that stream from their eyes are collected and used in traditional Asian medicine.