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TIL Pixars “Cars” is basically the 1991 film “Doc Hollywood” remade.

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47Zw TIL That in 2012 a cat named Orlando beat top investment bankers in a year long investment competition, which he chose by throwing his favorite mouse toy at a grid to select companies to invest in
LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
BLke TiL: In one season of the Dutch version of “Survivor,” the men and women were split and given their own islands. At the end of 8 days, the men had a “Cafe on the beach,” while the women were stealing from each other and had not yet built a hut; the women approved of a tribe merger.
0BAR TIL when enlisting in the British army during WWII writer/actor Sir Peter Ustinov requested tank duty “because you can go into battle sitting down,” and as result his superiors concluded, “On no account must this man be put in charge of others.” so he was assigned to the infantry instead
X0POP TIL the song "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" has a second verse that includes the n-word