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TIL that the theme song for Nick’s “The Amanda Show” is a remix of music from a level in Spyro the Dragon - both were credited to the same guy, who wrote all of the music for the original Spyro trilogy: Stewart Copeland.

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vPXBR TIL During WW2, Juan Pujol Garcia, an apparent Spanish businessman, played a role in convincing the Nazis that the Allies were planning to stage the majority of the landings in Pas de Calais, rather than the Normandy coast. Garcia was working for the British intel., who referred to him as Garbo
eQ8g TIL the reason why Bambi (1941) looks so stylistically different than Disney’s other works is because entry-level employee Tyrus Wong, an immigrant artist from China, painted sketches of his vision without permission from supervisors. Walt Disney saw his work and promoted him as to lead BG artist.
nR4b TIL that the girl in the red coat from Schindler’s List was told by Spielberg to not watch the film until she was 18. She watched it at 11 and was traumatized. She watched it again at 18 and understood “Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film.”
Zpe6G TIL the last public execution by guillotine in France was in 1939. Christopher Lee was in France at the time and went along to watch.
vZbr TIL the US representative of the WHO had a publication discontinued after it said that cocaine used occasionally does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems because it failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches.