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March 19, 2025 1 min
What was the 1st photo on IG and When?
Did American Express ever deal with entertainment companies? 
How did we find out what an EWOK is? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it was kind of random mel tying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
When The Truman Show was coming out in nineteen ninety eight,
the director Peter Weir wanted to have hidden cameras installed
in every theater showing it, then have the movie cut
to the audience watching it, which probably would have freaked
a lot of people out. The first photo ever posted
on Instagram was a picture take it by one of
the founders of a Golden Retriever. He posted it in

(00:27):
July of twenty ten. I mean Instagram hasn't been around
for that long. American Express got into the communications business
in nineteen seventy nine founded MTV, Nickelodeon, and the Movie Channel.
They sold all of them to via Com about five
years later. So the guy who created Super Mayer Brothers
and the Legend of Zelda was not allowed to bike

(00:49):
to work at Nintendo because they thought it was too
dangerous for someone so valuable. And the word ewok is
never set out loud in the Star Wars movies. To
look today at your random facts
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