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TIL Pixar credits its success to its anti-Disney approach: no songs, no happy village, no love story.

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GYyaE TIL that nearly all criminal cases that go to trial in Japan end in a guilty verdict - the country have a 99.9% conviction rate.
KEe4 TIL the musician Moby is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
6l4Z TIL a professor in France carried out a 15-year study of 330 women’s breasts, measuring and examining their breasts to study the effects of living without the support of a bra. His conclusion is that a bra is useless.
XN1k TIL that at the time of his death, Harry Patch - the last surviving WW1 combat soldier - was 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day old
R7876 TIL Tennis player Stan Smith earns royalty, even after 40 years, for his shoe deal with Adidas.