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TIL cupid is supposed to be blind

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4RMJ TIL that a widow of a WWII veteran never learned the exact fate of her husband. After 68 years she found that he was not only buried in France. But that a town in France has been honoring him for the last 68 years.
e404 TIL John Lasseter, one of the three founding fathers of Pixar, was fired from Disney for trying to create three dimensional cartoon images. Lucasfilm hired him promptly afterwards for being innovative. Disney would later buy both Lucasfilms and Pixar for billions of dollars.
6dX7 TIL Tired of hearing “God Bless America” being overplayed on the radio because the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent, Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land”.
vRgB TIL Bill Clinton has a brother, who was nicknamed “Headache” by the secret service, due to his knack for landing in trouble.
e0Ma5 TIL that the primary additive for turning milk into curds, called Rennet, is extracted from the stomach lining of butchered calves