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TIL Sega accidentally made a Disney game in error. After the success of Castle Of Illusion, they released Fantasia but it turned out the license to adapt the movie was given by mistake as Walt Disney's nephew Roy promised not to adapt it.

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0wnPA TIL the first Nigerian Prince scam started over a hundred years ago, and the perpetrator was an American boy who requested $4 and a pair of old pants in exchange for Nigerian riches.
698JJ TIL IIHS researchers estimated that about 900 fatal crashes (727 involving pedestrians and 174 involving vehicle occupants) could have been avoided during 1987-91 if daylight saving time had been in effect throughout the year
Vx6k TIL “Liver-eating Johnson” was an American mountain man rumored to have killed, scalped, and/or eaten the livers of up to 300 Crow Indians after a group of Crow braves murdered his wife. He ate the liver because it had significance for Crow beliefs about the afterlife
NXV4P TIL that Rome has a centuries-old tradition of "talking statues" that provide an outlet for people to write anonymous satire and criticism of figures of power. After authorities tried to prevent people from leaving messages at the original statue, the number of talking statues increased.
1anP TIL Coconut juice – or water inside – not only is sterile, but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood, which enabled medics in the Pacific Theater in World War II to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma.