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TIL Bo Peep was omitted from Toy Story 3 because she would not have survived the incinerator scene, being made of porcelain.

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4XQKo TIL the first self-made black female millionaire of America was Madam C. J. Walker whose both parents were enslaved. After experiencing hair loss herself she created the "Walker system" which involved scalp preparation, lotions and iron combs. Her saleswomen were called "beauty culturalists".
9YXvG TIL that in 2006, the 54 billionaires living in the UK paid a total of £14.7m in tax. James Dyson alone paid £9m of that.
Vx8B TIL that the Devo album “Oh no! It’s Devo” was born out of critical reviews in which the band were alternately described as both “fascists” and “clowns”, leading the band to ask, “what would an album by fascist clowns sound like?”
Ba7W TIL that the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen,” which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war.
Y7Vgr TIL the axe used by Jack Nicholson to chop through the door in The Shining was sold at auction in 2019 for $209,000. A crew member purchased it originally from the production company at the conclusion of filming with the intention of using it to chop wood.