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TIL the design of The Master from the Brave Little Toaster was based on future Lion King Director, Rob Minkoff

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LwVv TIL-55% of the world population has brown eyes, 5-8% has hazel eyes, 8% has blue eyes, 2% has green eyes, and small percentages have silver or amber eyes. Eye color is unique just like fingerprints.
rkAe TIL “health insurance” was actually cooked up as a ploy by hospitals to fill empty beds. The real impetus to making insurance commonplace is when they made premiums tax-free if paid by employers. Before insurance the average person spent $5 per year on medical care.
GEL4 TIL that flipping a coin isn’t a 50/50 odd… It is actually around 51/49 to the side up when you flip
d5OE TIL the “American Psycho” movie studio wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for the Bateman role and were willing to quadruple the budget to accommodate DiCaprio’s $21 mil quote. Meanwhile, Christian Bale turned down all roles and auditions for 9 months, confident DiCaprio would eventually decline the part.
WA1L TIL the inventor of the Pringles can, Fredric Baur, had his ashes buried in one.