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TIL Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 40 Square miles, the same size as San Francisco. In 1963, Disney paid prices as low as $180 per acre for the land, buying under psuedo corporations. When sellers heard it was Disney buying the land, prices escalated as high as $80,000 per acre.

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M7YXA TIL The sections of the Great Wall of China built during the Ming Dynasty (14th-17th century) were built using sticky rice mortar, which was made with a mix of sticky rice porridge and slaked lime. It has high adhesive strength, sturdiness, waterproofing capability, and prevents weeds from growing.
kO9Dg TIL that snails can be dextral (clockwise-coiled) and sinistral (counterclockwise-coiled).
LkV4P Today I learned that manual shift is still the majority in the rest of the world, except in the US, while automatic is close to 96%.
bZpa TIL teleportation was used in Star Trek because the budget didn’t allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets
N7GyN TIL the word "thug" originates from a murderous Indian cult that strangled travelers to death. The cult operated for over 500 years and may have killed millions of people.