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TIL Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", originally wanted Donatello to be named Bernini, after the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorzeno Bernini.

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LkoZ9 TIL that in Toy Story 4 instead of creating all of the individual cobwebs by hand, Pixer created AI spiders that were programmed to spin the webs wherever the cobwebs needed to be.
6Bem TIL American fear over hitchhiking is not only largely irrational, but due to a campaign of disinformation by the FBI in the 1950s and 60s
8eleG TIL the US rationed Coffee for a period of time during WWII, limiting households to 1 pound every 5 weeks, averaging out to one cup per day per household. The rationing began in November 1942 and ended in July 1943.
OJXY TIL that PEPSI spent several hundred million dollars to slightly change their logo in 2008. The branding agency prepared a 27-page document to prove that this logo is the Da Vinci Code of branding, drawing on everything from magnetic fields to the “Golden Ratio”
LQOGm TIL that the original version of ‘Oh My Darling Clementine’ written in 1884 had some seriously dark lyrics. The third to last verse reads, “In a churchyard near the canon where the myrtle doth entwine Grow the roses in their posies fertilized by Clementine.” Fourth to last is also quite dark.