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TIL the movie Malcolm X (starring Denzel Washington) only got completed because of donations from Oprah, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Bill Cosby, and Tracy Chapman. This was after Warner Bros refused to give Spike Lee any more money to finish the film

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16KVd TIL that Elizabeth Taylor was deliberately late to her own funeral
8xOZ TIL in 2007 a news anchor refused to report on Paris Hilton in the midst of the Iraq war. She ended up burning one copy of the report and shredding another, while still on the air.
yVGa TIL Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Mario, Zelda, Star Fox etc) doesn’t like Donkey Kong Country, claiming it “proves that gamers will be willing to play a mediocre game if it has good graphics”.
9Y4Ap TIL Costco’s hot dogs started out as a single hot dog cart vendor in front of their San Diego warehouse, using Hebrew National dogs.
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