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TIL the DreamWorks film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was inspired by the hit anime movie Akira

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l5E5 TIL: Composer Arnold Schoenberg had Triskaidekaphobia. He feared the number 13 so much that he called it 12A instead of 13, and when he was 76 (7+6=13) he stayed in bed all day on friday the 13th, to avoid any danger. And died that night.
D1RQg TIL Johnny Otis, a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll, lived his professional and personal life as a Black man despite the fact he was ethnically Greek. He wrote, "As a kid I decided that if our society dictated that one had to be black or white, I would be black."
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MZZ7 TIL that while Kaa, the Snake in “The Jungle Book” is portrayed as villainous in every movie adaptation, in the original book he saves Mowgli’s life twice, and is considered a mentor and a friend.
xYx5 TIL that in 2014, Betty White was awarded the Guiness World Record for “Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female),” with a 1939 debut.