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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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W7YrN TIL that in 1956, an overnight DJ asked his audience to go to bookstores and ask for a non-existent book called "I, Libertine". Eventually, the book made it to the NYT bestseller list.
ADBZx TIL A WW2 German captain had the proposed name of his vessel rejected so he called it Götz von Berlichengen because GvB was quoted in Goethe as saying "Kiss my arse". The rejected name; Michael.
9BLB TIL Brainstorming has been shown to produce fewer and lower quality ideas than when people work alone.
M7PK0 TIL an off-duty nurse saved a boy's life by giving him CPR when his heart stopped after he was hit in the chest with a baseball bat during a Little League game. Seven years later that same boy saved the nurse's life by giving her the Heimlich maneuver after she started choking in a restaurant.
yQnYJ TIL: Canada has a desert - Columbia Plateau