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TIL that in 2013 "The Looney Tunes Show" established that "Yosemite Sam's" full name is Samuel Michelangelo Rosenbaum.

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wdpM TIL that the fifteen year old Steven Spielberg, dressed up ‘in a coat and tie’, sneaked onto the Universal Studios Lot and stuck his name up on the door of an abandoned office. He remained there without being caught for over three months, spending the time observing how the professionals made films.
VMkrB TIL James Cameron sold the rights to The Terminator for $1 on the condition he could direct the film. He regrets making the decision to sell but he regains the rights back to the franchise in 2019 due to changes in copyright law
6EDBQ TIL nobody's done the intricate calculations to find the average distance between a human and a spider.
gj8D TIL that IBM was so powerful in 1983 that people feared that its PCjr home computer would destroy Apple, Commodore, and all other competitors. The PCjr became “one of the biggest flops in the history of computing”.
d1QK TIL of the Instructions of Shuruppag, possibly the oldest decipherable document int he world. It contains such wisdom as “You should not pass judgment when you drink beer” and “Property is something to be expanded, but nothing can equal my little ones.”