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TIL “Electric Eye” by heavy metal band Judas Priest was in the temp score for “Toy Story 3”. Before it was cut, the song blared from the Aliens’ car in the opening scene. The song’s lyrics describe a satellite watching a surveillance state, foreshadowing (intentionally or not) the movie’s plot.

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4k4ag TIL: During WW2 the nazis tried to draft Michael Ende, the author of The Neverending Story. The 14 year old Ende tore up his draft papers and joined the Bavarian resistance instead
l16G TIL a 1997 study on affirmative action showed that, controlling for grades and SAT scores, “Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asian-Americans.”
X0QpX Til that the first president of Turkmenistan banned beards and dogs from the capital, and ordered the closure of all hospitals and libraries outside the capital, stating that the sick should go to the capital for treatment, and that Turkmens did not read anyway
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