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TIL Director James Cameron sketched the nude portrait of Kate Winslet used in the movie "Titanic."

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e04og TIL that in 1999 George Harrison was repeatedly stabbed and beaten with a lamp in his own home by a fan who believed he was on a mission from God, nearly becoming the second Beatle to be murdered for religious reasons by a crazed fan.
Xwvr TIL UPS was started by two teenagers with one bicycle and $100 borrowed from a friend.
DyLg TIL that comic book characters come back to life after dying so often that they are aware of the likely resurrections. Professor X said “in mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” After one X-Man died, his daughter refused to mourn him because he’d be alive again.
epBL6 TIL the term “debugging” comes from an incident that occurred while Grace Hopper was working on the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II. A moth flew into the computer and was electrocuted to death. Hopper literally had to “debug” the computer which is where the term came from.
bMM0 TIL J.K. Rowling became the first person to become a billionaire by writing books. However, she also lost her billionaire status because she donated so much money to charity.