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TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.

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xVpOb TIL of Anatoli Bugorski, who was struck on his face by a proton beam while inspecting a particle accelerator. The beam passed through his brain. He survived and went onto finish his PhD. Half his face is paralyzed, giving one hemisphere of his head a strangely young appearance.
dAB7 TIL that there is a nonprofit organization called Kiva where you can lend $25 to people around the world, for example women entrepreneurs in underdeveloped countries, to help them. You get the money back after a while, and the organization takes no cut.
wo0lY TIL the term Three-peat is trademarked and owned by Pat Riley who was the coach of the Lakers in the 80s when they were attempting for a three-peat in 1989 but didn't win it. The Jordan Bulls did get a three-peat in 1993 and Riley made royalties off of apparel using the term.
xV897 TIL that Kurt Cobain met and made an album with his idol novelist William Burroughs. After Cobain left their first meeting with each other in October 1993, Burroughs said to his secretary "There is something wrong with that boy, he frowns for no good reason".
NmLJ TIL: That Joseph Goebbels became Reich Chancellor after Hitler’s suicide, he completed one official act in the position, and within one day of getting this position he killed himself along with his immediate family.