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TIL: Shrek was a book (1990) before it was a movie (2001)

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9YmQQ TIL that Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson used to play practical jokes on director Andrew Stanton. As revenge, Stanton named the fish killer in Finding Nemo after her.
OLVL TIL A 17 year old high school football player who was black had a relationship with a 32 year old white crackhead prostitute in rural North Carolina. He was found hanging from a swing set, in a trailer park, in shoes he did not own, that did not fit, and it was ruled a suicide.
e0dBJ TIL A man named Dean Karnazes has a physiological advantage in that he doesn't seem to have a lactate threshold; thus was able to run 350 miles in 3 days without sleep
NrXN TIL, that the Doomsday Clock, a measure of how close we are global disaster, is at 11.55pm, the worst it’s been since 1984.
OGgQL Today I learned barbers and surgeons went their separate ways in 1745