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TIL James Cameron drew Kate Winslet naked in Titanic, and Jack Dawson was a personification of him as a teenager.

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0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.
OwA6 TIL The last united states aircraft to be shot down in combat was by another united states aircraft
YpnYx TIL Rob Thomas originally had George Michael in mind as the vocalist for Santana's hit song "Smooth". However, when Thomas recorded a demo, Santana enjoyed it and decided to have him record the final version.
gMRp9 Today I learned about Thorcon, an energy company that is partnering with the Indonesian government to set up Thorium power plants that produce just as much as coal plants and cost less, as well as having no risk of meltdown, all the while being mass-produceable.
KYYbQ TIL that since 1937 there has only been one year that motorbike races were held on the Isle of Man TT course and no one died