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TIL Pixar flew a rep out to a 10-year-old girl's home with a DVD copy of 'Up' before it was released because it was her dying wish to see the film. She died 7 hours later.

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W7JW9 TIL that Isaac Newton proposed a cure for bubonic plague using toad vomit
ynAp TIL That George Clooney uses most of his earnings from the Nespresso adverts to fund a spy satellite over Sudan to prevent genocide.
GYyRE TIL a man once tried to introduce each bird species mentioned in Shakespeare to North America. In 1890, he released 60 starlings... and now their population is 150 million, spread from Alaska to Central America. They are a nuisance in the US, causing $800M/yr in agricultural damage.
VaN4 TIL that during the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor’s lawn with a sign reading “Don’t Threaten Us.”