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TIL that A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and WALL-E were all brainstormed over a single lunch

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M7Qm0 TIL about bank robber and kidnapper Vassilis Palaiokostas who is known as the "Greek Robin Hood" for giving away most of his stolen millions to the poor. He escaped by helicopter from the same maximum security prison twice while serving a 25 year sentence and remains at large despite a €1m bounty.
4jNN TIL we have reached “peak child” some years ago. The number of children in the world is not increasing anymore and global fertility is trending downwards
L50Q TIL the first cat to be cloned was named Copycat.
WneB TIL every year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, after the last plane has left for the winter, the remaining scientists hold a screening of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, which is about a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes scientists trapped at an Antarctic research station.
oRkvL TIL Port-au-Prince Marriott Hotel opened in 2015 as a response to help Haiti rebuild its tourism industry after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It employs 200 staff, with many who were recruited from Haiti’s poorest areas and features over 200 original artworks