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TIL that 16 year old Auli'i Cravalho was the last person out of hundreds to audition for the voice of Moana. Cravalho has stated that she was initially not going to audition for Moana because “there were already so many great submissions over YouTube”.

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X6DP TIL that Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that starred in many silent films, almost won the first Oscar for best actor but the Academy, “believed that this new idea of handing out these Oscars could possibly be damaged by the first Best Actor being a dog.”
Mer0m TIL that Paulo Coelho, internationally famous author of The Alchemist, "pirates" his own works -- by publishing torrents of his own books on file-sharing sites -- because he discovered that torrenting his books on Bittorrent actually boosted sales of his books quite significantly.
Ypl4x TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first siting president to take an international trip (Panama). Prior to this it was seen taboo, citizens did not want the president mingling with royalty. Changes in America's foreign policy and barriers to travel made it a valuable part of the modern Presidency.
GA1AN TIL that Cher is often credited as the first artist to use auto-tune in a song with her 1998 hit "Believe"
KYEVJ TIL about the Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that carved up the early light bulb market for profit and to reduce the operating life of light bulbs from about 2,500 hours to under 1,000 hours to force people to buy more bulbs. It’s an early example of planned obsolescence to drive profits.