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TIL Pixar had to complete the entire Toy Story 2 in 9 months to meet Disney's deadline, The production was so straining that in one instance, an animator had forgotten to drop his child off at daycare one morning and, in a mental haze, forgot the baby in the back seat of his car in the parking lot.

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xVyND TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
XEbnP TIL that "Uptown Funk" is not a song by Bruno Mars. The song is by British producer Mark Ronson, and Mars is simply "featured" on the track.
BgJoK TIL that portobello mushrooms and white button mushrooms are the same mushroom, just at different stages of growth. Same with crimini (the brown ones).
mxwBO TIL the Bikini (swimsuit) was named after the Bikini Atoll (atom bomb test site) and not the other way around
va5x TIL that the Mazda 787B is the only car with a rotary engine (Wankel) to win the 24 hours of Le Mans. Its 2.6l wankel engine generated 700bhp. The engine performed so well that after winning the race it was banned