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TIL that Sony only released the original Playstation because Nintendo severed their partnership to build a gaming system with a CD drive.

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VMkLD TIL that the creator of "Jaws" dedicated the last decade of his life to preserving sharks after witnessing horrific abuse (and to make up for the anti-shark hysteria the movie caused)
WQAd TIL that Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 off their servers. The project was saved by an employee who had the data at her home.
grMGD TIL that the term “fast fashion” was first coined by the New York Times in the 1990s to describe the rise of the now popular clothing store, ZARA. At the time, it only took 15 days for an idea for a product to make it into stores.