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TIL George Lucas was in debt after building Skywalker Ranch and producing the bomb “Howard the Duck”, so he sold the Lucasfilm CGI division to Steve Jobs, which later became Pixar.

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o4J8 TIL cats kill between 8.3 billion and 24.4 billion birds and mammals each year and have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.
6E4am TIL that Mark Twain authored a revised version of The Battle Hymn of the Republic in response to the US Imperialism and the Philippine-American War in 1900. Lines include "Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword" and "As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich"
aNab TIL the last year the United States went without any deaths in a school shooting was 1981
xE1w TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
5VrKR TIL until 1974, the US billion was quantified as 1,000 million and the UK billion was 1 million million.