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TIL that 16 year old Auli'i Cravalho was the last person out of hundreds to audition for the voice of Moana. Cravalho has stated that she was initially not going to audition for Moana because “there were already so many great submissions over YouTube”.

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894G TIL artist Peter von Tiesenhausen made the top 6 inches of his 800 acre farm a copyrighted work of art to keep oil pipelines out. It costs oil companies $500/h to talk to him
D1ngD TIL actor Ashton Kutcher took part in the development of software used to identify child sex trade victims, with nearly 6,000 identified to date.
yV5pp TIL that “Goodwill Industries, a tax-exempt non-profit that generates more than $5 billion in annual revenue and pays its executives six-figure and seven-figure salaries, pays some of its workers as little as $0.22 per hour. Why? Because they are disabled.”
VZM8 TIL Churchill’s ‘We will fight on the beaches’ speech was never recorded. The famous recording is him reciting it in his home 4 years after the war.
NZjJ TIL that, due to its isolation, a third of the plant life on the island of Socotra (Yemen) is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as “most alien-looking place on Earth”.