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TIL Johnny Cash’s hit “A Boy Named Sue” was written by famed American author Shel Silverstein.

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MeKyV TIL that Steve Jobs was so good at applying his reality distortion field to convincing employees not to quit, that the original Macintosh motherboard designer planned to just walk into Steve's office and pee on his desk before he'd have the opportunity to convince him not to quit.
Lv99 TIL when working on “I Am Legend,” Will Smith got so attached to his co-star (Abbey the dog), he asked the owner can he buy her. The owner refused.
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