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TIL Disney-Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter was FIRED by Disney in the early-1980s after pitching a computer-animated film about forgotten appliances at a summer cabin waiting for their owner to return. He was so ashamed that he didn’t admit what happened to even his wife for over 20 years

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loBM1 TIL of the Halfway to Hell Club, a exclusive club reserved only for workers who built the Golden Gate Bridge who fell off the bridge and was saved by the nets spread under it.
dwkB TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from two schools and went to prison for credit card fraud
69gg8 TIL there are 2 different types of spiders generally referred to as ‘Daddy Long Legs’ in North America & neither are, in fact, poisonous to humans as some say
g95A TIL there’s a Deaf KFC in Pakistan, India and Egypt made for and handled by deaf people.
4kabX TIL of ‘The Terminal Man’ who lived in a Paris airport for 18 years.