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TIL that people hated shopping carts when they first came out in 1936

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4kZKw TIL Nicholas Meyer, who got credited with revitalizing and saving the Star Trek franchise by directing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), had virtually no knowledge of Star Trek and had never seen a single episode of the show when approached to direct the film and rewrite the script.
OoQNY TIL that The Lion King, heavily marketed by Disney as their "first Disney original" was straight up plagiarized from Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion (1960)
9YLbG TIL a guy is more likely to be gay if he went through puberty earlier
4kWmw TIL in 2023, Michael Oher, the basis of the film The Blind Side, sued his adopted family - the Touhys - for tricking him to sign a deal that paid them millions of dollars in royalties from the film while he received nothing. The Touhys terminated the conservatorship, which they were "happy to end".
b9Re4 TIL during one of the Graham Bond Organization concerts drummer Ginger Baker attacked his bandmate, bassist Jack Bruce, with a knife.