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TIL that Kingdom Hearts began as a literal elevator pitch, when a Square Enix developer ran into a Disney executive in the elevator of their shared building

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l9pa TIL the average worker in the US today would only have to work 11 hours per week to be as productive as his fellow worker in 1950.
69LN8 TIL E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” is on banned books list b/c talking animals & “ it questions some religious beliefs.” https://readingpartners.org/blog/five-more-childrens-books-you-didnt-know-were-banned/
wonAM TIL New York mobster, Joe Gallo was a diagnosed schizophrenic, watercolor painter, and avid reader of classic literature, who paraded his pet lion around the city. He kidnapped his own bosses, sparked two gang wars, and was killed on his birthday, in 1972. And Bob Dylan wrote a song about him.
Rbdj TIL lobsters are “biologically immortal”
R7Jv7 TIL about Simon the cat, the only cat to win the British Empire's medal for Gallantry and Devotion to Duty