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TIL Pixar has created a completely functional website for the fake college Monsters University for the promotion of their upcoming film, Monsters University; complete with admissions info, majors, etc.

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7rveZ TIL that Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from A Bug's Life (1998), had no known reference in nature until the Megaceras briansaltini was discovered in 2007. This phenomena, of nature mimicking art, was coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer.
0dEJR TIL Actor Peter Dante, famous for his appearance in Adam Sandler films, has not appeared in a Sandler film since 2013, following an incidence in which he called a hotel worker the N-word for not recognizing him
awyj0 TIL Dave Thomas (the founder of Wendy's) was a high-school dropout. He was afraid his success would convince teens to drop out of school, so at age 60, he went back and got his GED.
d8ZMZ TIL President John Adams started smoking at 8 and drinking at 15. He lived to be 90.
oB9EE TIL that the Yucatan is so flat that any hill is considered to be a Mayan relic. Thousands of them have never been examined by an archeologist.