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TIL that in preparation for animating WALL-E, the film's story crew and animation crew would watch a Buster Keaton film and a Charlie Chaplin film every day for almost a year, to be able to convey emotions silently and effectively

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4n06 TIL: Sea Otters have a pouch that they use to keep their favorite rock.
ErZw TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon’s marketing guy deliberately tricked a generation of hipsters into making PBR their ironic beer of choice.
VMjMG TIL in 1937, dancer Patricia Douglas was assaulted at an MGM party. She hired a lawyer and tried to sue, even going to the federal court after the state court dismissed her suit. MGM spread lies about her, claiming she was promiscuous and had a venereal disease, and covered up the crime.
OoED6 TIL Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane, who unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
R61w TIL the Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away