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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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D1P5g TIL 52 days before his death Elvis Presley while stopped at a red light saw two men beating a teenager lying on the ground and quickly got out of his car and into a karate pose and said "I'll take you two on" The fight stopped instantly and the stunned men shook his hand.
YpndW TIL a kidney can be purchased for $650 in Kenya and sold for $200,000 in South Africa.
rN4xM TIL that in the 4th century CE, Roman bishop Acacius of Amida sold the all church's treasures to free 7000 Persian prisoners captured by the Romans during war. The Persian emperor was so impressed by the act that he ordered an end to Christian persecution throughout his empire.
nWJo TIL-That some police dogs are equipped with ballistic vests and even given a full police funeral when killed in the line of duty
R5Nv4 TIL Final Fantasy II & III were finished in a motel room in Sacramento after one of the main programmers, Nasir Gebelli, was forced to leave Japan because of an expired work visa while they were in development, so SquareSoft (Square Enix) just moved the rest of the development staff with him.