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TIL that according to the Monsters Inc DVD commentary track, the sushi restaurant was originally blown up by the CDA. After the events of September 11, Pixar changed the scene to show the restaurant covered in a plasma dome. They managed to pull this off in time for the November 2 release date.

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1MXP TIL that the company that produces Sriracha hot sauce made $60 million in the year 2012 alone, while not spending one penny at all on advertising.
d8KWQ TIL George Lucas thought Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" would out perform Star Wars so he proposed they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other's films; Spielberg took the trade, and still receives 2.5% of the profits from Star Wars.
OGwX TIL You literally cannot be more than 115 miles from a McDonald’s in the contiguous USA.
b9noQ TIL that it's estimated that a boy born to Samoan parents is 56 times more likely to get into the NFL than any other kid in America.
QvpM TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.