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TIL Steve Jobs purchased a company from George Lucas in 1986, named it "Pixar", and its first client after being incorporated was Disney.

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xBZ0 TIL IMDB’s lowest ranked film is an Indian film called ‘Gunday’ which attained it’s rank because of a “downvote brigade” organized by a Bangladeshi nationalist group through the hashtag #GundayHumiliatedHistoryOfBangladesh
5VrgD TIL that Halloween in early 19th Century America was a night of pranks, tricks, illusions and anarchy.
E1JLV Today i learned: Certain species of sabertooths like Homotherium might've been able to cover their fangs, this is not true for most other sabertooths however. Also, the whites in human eyes are used to better communicate amongst ourselves!