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TIL that “Toy Story 2” was almost lost when a staff member accidentally ran a command deleting valuable files. They were able to salvage two months of intensive work because one of the technical directors had just had a baby, was working from home, and had saved backups on their home computer.

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9wlED TIL: In the Palace of Westminster, the UK's parliamentary building, there are nearly 30 different bars. In the 1980s, an estimated 10 per cent of MPs were alcoholics.
kY6W TIL that the United States is the only high-income country (and one of eight in the world) that does not provide paid maternal leave.
GYD1g TIL In the third episode of season four of Game of Thrones, the Meereenese rider who challenges Daenerys' champion was hurling abuses which actually were Low Valyrian translation of the French guy's insults in Monty Python And The Holy Grail, such as "your mother was a hamster".
4XRJ5 TIL that the US Army never gave the Native Americans smallpox infested blankets as a tool of genocide. The US did inflict countless atrocities against the natives, but the smallpox blankets story was fabricated by a University of Colorado professor.
GAQp4 TIL Men should not try to "save up" sperm when trying to get their partner pregnant. Sperm quality significantly decreases after 7-10 days of abstinence.