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TIL John Lasseter was fired from Disney in 1983 for pushing the studio to explore computer animation production, but went on to become the creative head of Pixar.

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dDLVQ TIL the 1971 Woody Allen movie "Bananas" was condemned by a US review board for the Catholic church. This was because of a commercial parody in which a priest promoted "New Testament cigarettes" during Holy Communion.
7aDx TIL Olympic athletes may participate independently, without an associated country (they fly the Olympic flag)
dNmd TIL The UK has 4 nuclear submarines as a nuclear deterrent, each has an identical “letter of last resort”. These letters contain orders from the current PM should the government collapse due to nuclear attack. The PM has only four options to choose and they’re destroyed unopened upon a new PM.
4XNdJ TIL that bioluminescence is believed to be the most common form of communication on earth.
VAJ8 TIL in season one of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the Dire wolves were played by a relatively new breed of dog known as the Northern Inuit Dog.