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TIL that John Lasseter (CEO of Pixar) was fired from Disney for promoting computer animation

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gMJwA TIL that when the British monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up, hanged in chains and beheaded as a posthumous execution for the crime of signing Charles I's death warrant. His head was then owned by various people till its burial in 1960.
v1vQB TIL - A San Diego flight school flunked two of the 9/11 hijackers for being terrible students.
rR0m1 TIL It's theorized that Mitochondrion were originally a separate organism which became incorporated symbiotically into other bacteria at some point
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vPll7 TIL about sanewashing, where people try to minimise the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience.