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TIL John Williams isn't a great composer; he is a thief!!! And this is just a small example

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vPwA7 TIL when Saved by the Bell's Executive Producer Peter Engel was asked predict where the characters would be today, he said Zack is a game show host or hedge fund manager; Slater a football coach; Screech is Bill Gates; Jessie is in politics; Lisa is Vera Wang and Kelly would have a Food Network show
v17AB TIL Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", originally wanted Donatello to be named Bernini, after the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorzeno Bernini.
QNjYk TIL that Germany plotted to kill Winston Churchill with a bar of exploding chocolate during WW2
kOkRE TIL of the Fermi Paradox: There's a high possibility that intelligent alien life exists but no actual evidence of it.
Z8NQo TIL AJ Jacobs embarked on a quest to read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and was a contestant on "Millionaire" but only won $32,000 because he forgot what an erythrocyte was. He also visited the Brittanica HQ and discovered that not even the editor-in-chief knew every fact in its publication