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TIL Tolkien and CS Lewis hated Disney, with Tolkien branding Walt's movies as “disgusting” and “hopelessly corrupted” and calling him a "cheat"

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VJMG TIL Stephen Fry was on a tour by the church of latter day saints when the tour guide said ‘in the afterlife all families will be reunited’. He replied 'And what happens if you’ve been good’. He was expelled from the tour.
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