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TIL Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" was originally written for TLC

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4mV6 TIL Disney’s Mulan grossed $300 million worldwide but barely made $30,000 in her home province of Hunan,China. Some Beijingers say they found her too self-aggrandizing, and opposes Confucian culture, which emphasizes values of modesty and community
v145L TIL of "Hammer" Simwinga, a Zambian man who has helped stop poaching in North Luangwa Nat'l Park. Most villages near the park relied on poaching for income. Simwinga eliminated the need for poaching for 35K+ people in 60 villages by teaching sunflower planting, beekeeping, & sustainable farming.
9Yw7X TIL "Un Chien Andaloue" is 1929 surrealist short movie made by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel. At the Paris premiere Buñuel put stones in his pockets "to throw at the audience in case of disaster".
Lk850 TIL in 1991 two English pranksters took credit for many of Britain's crop circles, after an investigator declared one example "impossible for human beings to make". After some refused to believe them, Bower and Chorley started adding straight lines and squares to show they weren't natural.
kOYmm TIL Canada fixes the price of dairy by law, costing Canadians an additional $300 in groceries per year — and you can go to prison for smuggling cheese across the border.