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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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GA1ZQ TIL that in the 1940s, filmmaker Orson Welles was under investigation by the FBI as they believed he had ties to communist activities because of his film “Citizen Kane”. He was considered such a threat that the FBI had him on a list of people who should be apprehended in case of a national emergency
epmGk TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
QNLoa TIL there is a contest for the "Fattest Bear of the Year" in Alaska
Kyja TIL In the ‘80s, New York City was terrorized by a street gang called the Decepticons. They had names like Megatron and Soundwave and they called Brooklyn “Cybertron.”
ANwwx TIL There were experiments conducted in the 1950s where researchers gave their subjects manual control over the pleasure centers of their brains through the click of a button, wired to surgically implanted electrodes.