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TIL that European settlers killed so many Native Americans that it temporarily changed the global climate

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PQjV TIL that Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval.
5dyk TIL in 1951 in a Disney comic titled ‘Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man’ Mickey and Goofy get high and move to Africa to become drug dealers
K9DR TIL that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg worried that the Sharptooth fight and death of Littlefoot’s mother in The Land Before Time would be too frightening or even psychologically-damaging to young children, so they consulted psychologists to examine the scenes.
DQrxe TIL about "Agloe, New York," a fake town created by mapmakers as a copyright trap to catch plagiarists. Decades later, a real store was built at that location and named "Agloe General Store" because the owners saw it on the map, effectively turning the fake town into a real one.
pgA TIL that until a referendum in 1967, Aboriginal Australians were not considered human beings - they were instead classified under the Flora & Fauna Act.