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TIL that Paul McCartney agreed to appear on The Simpsons if the "Lisa Simpson character would become a vegetarian like the McCartneys and never be considered a meat eater ever again"

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QJXNe TIL Disney changed the name of their project "Basil of Baker Street" to The Great Mouse Detective", causing Disney animators to pass around a joke memo blandly renaming old Disney classics. It reached the CEO of Disney, who was furious and demanded to know who wrote the memo. No one squealed.
VBVY4 TIL about Boundary Extension, which is " a widely accepted psychological phenomenon in which observers will recall an image as containing visual information beyond the boundaries of the originally studied image".
e0B7b TIL of an estimated 1.5 million species of mushrooms and fungi, about 75,000 have been named by scientists, 1100 have documented uses, and 10 are regularly grown for food
RmP4 TIL that as an April fools prank Hot Wheels made wonder woman’s invisible jet, it was nothing more than an empty Hot Wheels packet. However, there was so much demand for it they made it into a ‘real’ product.
Z44G TIL Metal “whiskers” can grow spontaneously from circuit board components, and have caused the failure of at least one satellite, and were detected in a failed relay at a nuclear power plant