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TIL: in Carl Sagans book "contact" the mysterious billionaire S R Hadden makes his initial wealth from creating a module called AdNix to mute sounds on ads from TV shows.

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wLGE6 TIL in 2012, a man attempted to pay his traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bills shaped as pigs, inside of 2 doughnut boxes. The clerk called in police, who required him to unfold every single one to pay his ticket. The event was regarded by the ticketed man as, "The Great Dollar Pig Massacre.".
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AXEd TIL John Knoll, the visual fx supervisor of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, won an oscar for a Pirates of the Caribbean movie and also invented Photoshop.