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TIL The Rescuers was originally going to be about rescuing a poet imprisoned by a totalitarian government, staying in line with the original The Rescuers book plot. However, Walt Disney didn't like the political overtones of such a plot.

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eg1E TIL that Muhammad Ali was invited to North Korea in 1995 with a collection of other athletes. Though he didn’t speak much during the visit, at one function, as officials claimed they could take out the US or Japan whenever they wanted to, Ali declared loudly “no wonder we hate these motherfuckers.”
JDy4 TIL the Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting
4krKJ TIL a farmer’s observation of his cows made his town a hot touristic spot for the rich and famous of 1600s England. He noticed that cows wouldn’t drink from a particular pond. The water was bitter. Also, it had medical properties. Epsom Salts were born and Epsom town became a popular spa destination
7rLeO TIL the founder of Ba'athism and the idea of a post-colonial pan-arab union, Michel Aflaq, was actually a Greek orthodox philosopher. He viewed Islam as a useful unifying tool for the region and a product of "Arab genius".
BrWGr TIL that the Milky Way galaxy is located in a comparatively empty region of space known as the KBC Void. At approximately 2 billion light-years in diameter it is the largest known void in the universe