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woy0M TIL: That Marilyn Manson's 1994 debut single "Get Your Gunn" contains an audio sample of R. Budd Dwyer's televised suicide from 1987. The bridge of the song contains audio from the press conference, including the sound of the gunshot that killed him.
JYyA4 TIL In 1994, four of Pixar's directors had a lunch where they came up with four movie ideas. Those ideas became A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and WALL-E.
pY01e TIL: In March 2000, MicroStrategy announced that it had significantly overstated its revenue, causing a 62% stock drop in one day, in what is regarded as the bursting of the dot-com bubble
8joL TIL: Dr. Yamanaka was described as an incompetent surgeon. He later turned to research and discovered Induced Pluripotent Stem cells and received a Nobel Prize for it.
YWkB TIL Fats Waller was kidnapped to be the surprise guest at Al Capone’s birthday party at gunpoint. He left 3 days later intoxicated with thousands of dollars in tips.