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TIL that Kathryn Beaumont at 13 voiced Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and did so again for “Kingdom Hearts” at age 64.

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9J0m TIL In 1848, the British East India Company sent Botanist Robert Fortune on a trip to China’s interior, an area forbidden to foreigners to steal tea seeds from China to India.He succeeded and within his lifetime, India surpassed China as the world’s largest tea grower.
KjDG TIL That NATO must treat any attack on an ally’s soil as if it were their own, unless it’s Hawaii.
epkVD TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.
MEE7 TIL on September 11th, 2001 when the US Airspace was shutdown following the attacks, Canada took in 255 flights bound for the USA making this known as Operation Yellow Ribbon. There were over 30,000 people on all 200 flights. Many Canadians hosted the passengers at home for several days.
wLLpM TIL 20th Century Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox