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TIL that Disney almost made a Toy Story 3 without Pixar’s involvement. The story involved Buzz Lightyear toys being recalled for manufacturing defects and being shipped off to Taiwan. The film was almost in production stages before being scrapped by Pixar.

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PYMBw TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One/star of the Ip Man films) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.
9w7PB TIL of Drosophila bifurca, the record-holder for the longest sperm cells in nature (20x its body-length)
N7gVE TIL that Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan has a 90-page FBI file that includes A shootout with the NYPD, drug dealing, illegal possession of body armor, and connections to 3 different murders.
LkgJQ TIL the Aztecs made swords embedded with prismatic obsidian blades that are far sharper than even high quality present day steel razor blades.
bjVZ TIL 903 miles from Benghazi under President Ronald Reagan in 1983, numerous warnings were ignored in the Shiite truck bombing that killed 220 US Marines in Beirut. The lead sentry had no bullets in his gun.