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TIL Despicable Me is the highest-grossing animated franchise ever, even beating Shrek.

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rRWme TIL about Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
emW6 TIL Nickelodeon originally didn’t air commercials, instead the time was filled with a performing mime
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D8Yr TIL that Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” was actually about how television destroys interest in literature, not about censorship and while giving a lecture in UCLA the class told him he was wrong about his own book, and he just walked away.