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TIL that Orson Welles met with Walt Disney about making an animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince together. Welles' pitch captivated Disney's animators so much that Walt became indignant. He declared to an associate, "There is not room on this lot for two geniuses!"

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