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TIL that Usher won a bidding war with Justin Timberlake to sign Justin Bieber by saying, 'There can only be one Justin. So if you go with Justin, that’s Justin and Justin. With me, it’s only one Justin.' This instantly created a relationship and showed support for him as an entrepreneur.

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ANZBl TIL The Nova Effect - events in life cause intense change of a person’s thinking
ZpygD TIL South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were asked to write the prequel to Dumb and Dumber. In an interview with Playboy in 2000, they explained they worked on it for two years, but they were too busy with South Park to finish it
6BVJ TIL that there is a second version of Back to the Future 2, where Marty and Doc go to 1967 instead of 1955. The entire script is available online.
nWNgG TIL Sylvester Graham was a 19th century antebellum American reformer who spoke out in favor of healthy living, including avoiding meats, alcohol, and too much sexual activity. He created a bland cracker, the Graham cracker, to stop the need for sexual intimacy
wvOE TIL Georg Cantor, the mathematician who came up with the idea that ‘infinity has different sizes’, was rejected by most of his contemporaries for his ideas and, as a result, suffered from depression until the end of his life.