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TIL One artist created the mascot for 100+ universities and many are duplicates due to historical regionalization of schools.

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kOjQe TIL Robin Williams improvised 16 hours of material for the Genie. The Animators adjusted the animations to his voice-performance.
E1Qow TIL that Betty White is older than Mickey Mouse.
LQpx9 TIL the Canadian tuxedo refers to a denim double breasted jacket and matching jeans created by Levi's for Bing Crosby. Levi's was inspired in 1951 when Crosby was nearly escorted off a hotel's premises during a hunting trip in Canada because he and his hunting buddies were wearing denim
MeXD8 TIL that the Burj Khalifa is so tall that inhabitants above the 80th floor have to wait 2 additional minutes to break their Ramadan fast compared to people on the ground, while people above the 150th floor have to wait an additional 3 minutes.
9YlXX TIL of a 240 year old robot boy called "The Writer" - ancestor to the computer and can be "programmed" to write 40 character sentences