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TIL there was a cult devoted to Gadget from Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers

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dM5j TIL in the first draft of the Anchorman script, the story was about a planeload of news anchors who crash in the mountains and discover that the plane which they collided was carrying monkeys and martial arts equipment, leading to a battle between cannibalistic newsmen and star-throwing monkeys
PrlO TIL James Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977.
0prL TIL that sloths can swim 3x faster than they can move on land and can hold their breath for up to 40 min.
oYKW TIL that the Leica Camera company smuggled hundreds of Jews out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, masquerading the Jews as employees being assigned overseas. The company helped each refugee find a job, gave each of them a Leica camera, and a monthly stipend till they found work.
1BD4 TIL that ExonMobil, Cheveron, and, BP were once part of Standard Oil, founded by John D. Rockefeller, before it was broken up by the US Supreme Court in 1911.