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An employee at Pixar accidentally deleted a sequence of Toy Story 2 during production.

Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar, wrote in his book Creativity Inc. that the year before the movie came out, someone entered the command, ‘/bin/rm -r -f *’ on the drive where the files were saved and scenes started to be deleted. It would have taken a year to recreate what was deleted, but luckily another employee had a backup of the entire film on her laptop at home. .https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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Paint used to be stored in pig bladders..

Pig bladders were used in the 19th century to store an artist’s paint. The bladder would be sealed with a string and then pricked to get the paint out. This option wasn’t the best because it would often break open. American painter John G. Rand was the innovator who made paint tubes from tin and screw cap in the 19th century. https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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1Ancient Egyptians used dead mice to ease toothaches!

In Ancient Egypt, people put a dead mouse in their mouth if they had a toothache, according to Nathan Belofsky’s book Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Age. Mice were also used as a warts remedy during Elizabethan England. https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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Creature is a vegetarian..

Victor Frankenstein’s Creature is actually vegetarian. Frankenstein and Creature are fictional characters created by Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein. In the novel, Creature says, “My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.” https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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The # symbol isn’t officially called hashtag or pound.

Its technical name is octothorpe. The “octo-” means “eight” to refer to its points, though reports disagree on where “-thorpe” came from. Some claim it was named after Olympian Jim Thorpe, while others argue it was just a nonsense suffix. https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/.
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Dogs sniff good smells with their left nostril.

Dogs normally start sniffing with their right nostril, then keep it there if the smell could signal danger, but they’ll shift to the left side for something pleasant, like food or a mating partner. https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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Cows don’t have upper front teeth.

They do have molars in the top back of their mouths though. Where you’d expect upper incisors, cows, sheep, and goats have a thick layer of tissue called a “dental pad.” They use that with their bottom teeth to pull out grass. https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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The Pope can’t be an organ donor.

Pope Benedict XVI was issued an organ donor card in 1970. Once he ascended to the papacy in 2005, the card was invalid, reports the Telegraph. According to the Vatican, the Pope’s entire body must be buried intact because his body belongs to the universal Catholic Church. https://www.rd.com/culture/interesting-facts/
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Happy 5th Edition!

It's 2018 and I've completed most of the lessons in the 5th edition of the book!
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