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

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e0VQ5 TIL just about every product we buy and use has been gobbled up by one of about 10 megacorporations
Ldvv TIL in 2009, a woman filed suit against PepsiCo after discovering that the crunchberries in a Cap'n Crunch cereal had not in fact been real fruit. The case was thrown out, with the judge remarking that to do otherwise would “ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense”.
Zp8ga TIL about “The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho” where you can be murdered for playing music. “After one Famo musician allegedly shot another in 2004, a cycle of revenge developed, fuelled by poisonous lyrics in songs.” This has now led to Lesotho having the sixth-highest homicide rate in the world.
E1Nyo TIL that Elizabeth Taylor once reached out to Marlyin Monroe privately and told her “No matter what they write about me, Marilyn, I never deny it. I never confirm it. I just keep smiling and walking forward. You do the same." after the press constantly tried to pit the two against each other.
mxbEy TIL the game Pokemon Stadium for Nintendo 64 contains a full Game Boy emulator within its code, making it possible to play Game Boy games on a Nintendo 64.