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TIL Microsoft makes more money from Samsung than from Skype, Windows phone, and XBOX combined

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9wEQr TIL Some single-celled organisms are big enough to see with the naked eye, and leave fossils.
LQbKv TIL that when "The Incredibles" was in production, early footage was shown to a visiting Hayao Miyazaki. When asked if he thought it made sense or was just "American nonsense", Miyazaki replied through an interpreter, "I think it's a very adventurous thing you are trying to do in an American film."
M7Mom TIL- That the 'Mansi photograph' has been called, by National Geographic, by experts, and by cryptozoologists, the best photograph of a Lake Monster ever taken. It was taken 46 years ago and has never been debunked!
x6D91 TIL of the Black Friday Reel, which was a storyboard reel for Toy Story 1. This early version of the film had a more cynical tone, and Woody was a callous & insufferable character. It was so bad that, according to other sources, Disney execs wanted to shut down the film.
neO7Y TIL: After murdering Caesar, Brutus minted a coin to commemorate the occasion. A handful of silver and only two gold are known to exist.