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TIL that Warner Bros. (as a whole) is actually older than Disney (as a whole, too), even if they share the same "birth year" (1923, tbe). [Warner Bros. is born on Apr. 4, while Disney is born on Oct. 3.]

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dD6vZ TIL that Roger Corman, director of low-budget movies, helped kick start the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and Ron Howard. He reportedly told Howard: "If you do a good job on this film, you'll never have to work for me again."
6lJ8 TIL Land Rover’s first design had the steering wheel in the middle so it could be used in left or right side driving counties without modifications.
dDW19 TIL The Beatles opened for Little Richard before they had a record deal, The Rolling Stones opened for him as unknowns, Jimi Hendrix started in his band, and James Brown's big break was as a Little Richard impersonator playing shows Little Richard couldn't attend.
7rkK7 TIL the Romans had a sacrificial "door to the underworld" in modern day Turkey where animals would appear to mystically drop dead. The eunuch priests that brought them there were left unscathed because they stood above the lethal cloud of carbon dioxide gas.
rN1V0 TIL That Vietnam has the most favorable view of the United States in the world