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TIL Toy Story 2 got deleted from Pixar but was recovered by an employee who saved the movie to her computer at home while on maternal leave.

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gr84W TIL: One of the largest charitable donations made by a lottery winner came from a man in Canada. Two years after his wife died from cancer, Tom Crist won the lotto and donated everything to organizations fighting the disease. Canada doesn't tax winnings, so Crist donated $40 million.
be89 TIL the cast of Friends earned at least $88,460,000 over its 10 seasons. EACH. (This does not include syndication royalties negotiated from the 5th season onwards)
KOW6J TIL in 2010, Iran banned mullets, adding it to a list of hairstyles it deemed "decadent Western cuts" and "un-Islamic."
AgPB TIL that the ‘Bridge of Sighs’ in Venice is named that because it was the last sight that convicts would see of Venice.
DQ1GY TIL that people used to believe that every sperm had a little, tiny human being inside