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TIL After reviving Disney’s animation studios with The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King, Jeffrey Katzenberg asked for a promotion and was promptly fired. He swore revenge and founded Dreamworks . Within 10 years, Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 became the third highest grossing movie of all time.

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4X8jX TIL Humans can survive indefinitely on a diet of just potatoes and butter
NE81 TIL Hugh Hefner’s father, a public accountant, turned him down when he needed money to start Playboy as he did not think the magazine was a good business investment. However, as he was about to leave, his mother took him aside and gave him a $1000 cheque from her savings to help his venture
yVao8 TIL about Frederick Banting, at 30 he discovered Insulin, and sold the patent for $1 to the University of Toronto. He won the Nobel prize at 32. Over 150 million people today depend on this life saving drug. TIL also that he helped develop the first pilot G-suit.
8NGa TIL that during the 2008 presidential election, author Stephen King referred to Glenn Beck as “Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother.” In the same year he also spoke out against a Massachusetts bill that would restrict the sale of violent video games to minors.
GYLA1 TIL of Tarrare, an unusual man with an insatiable appetite who was able to eat vast amounts of food whole without chewing, to include live animals and human corpses. He was slim, but with enormous teeth and slack wrinkly skin. His body was also hot to the touch and would sweat profusely after eating