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TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014

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ZpD0v TIL that Warner Bros. (as a whole) is actually older than Disney (as a whole, too), even if they share the same "birth year" (1923, tbe). [Warner Bros. is born on Apr. 4, while Disney is born on Oct. 3.]
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