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

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LQkBv TIL that cows have best friends and can become stressed if they are separated
Y4QZ TIL a fake town named “Agloe” was placed on a map for copyright purposes. Some people opened a shop at that location and named their store “Agloe General Store”, thus turning the fake town into a real one.
VM8Gp TIL: Sylvester Stallone approached Queen for the right to use Another One Bites the Dust for Rocky III but they declined. So he asked Survivior to write a song. They came up with Eye of the Tiger and the rest is history.
MeBDV TIL: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas authored a legal opinion that no other Justice signed on to arguing that the 1st Amendment should not protect anyone under 18 or non-citizens.
ke4e TIL that in the original Universal Horror films, Ygor was not a hunchback. His neck had been broken when he was hanged for graverobbing, and though he lived, he legally couldn’t be retried.