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2021-09-05 00:01:05
TIL, the arcade shooter Area 51 saved Atari from the brink of bankruptcy and went on to become one of the most successful arcade games of all time [Source]
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2021-09-04 16:30:08
TIL the role of Django was originally written for Will Smith, who turned it down due to him feeling he wouldn’t be the lead actor [Source]
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2021-09-04 00:01:09
TIL In the original ending to "Pretty Woman", Richard Gere's character throws Julia Roberts character out of his limo in a dirty alley and tosses $3,000 on top of her [Source]
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2021-09-03 16:30:11
TIL the big orange fuel tank attached to the space shuttles was originally white, but they stopped painting it to save 600lbs [Source]
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2021-09-03 00:01:07
TIL that Christopher Lee sent Peter Jackson a photograph of him in a wizard's costume, wanting to play Gandalf, but Jackson decided he would be a perfect Saruman, instead. [Source]
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2021-09-02 16:30:06
TIL astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness. [Source]
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2021-09-02 00:01:12
TIL the Romans adjusted daily schedules to the sun. They divided daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during fall. The 3rd hour of the day in Rome was 44 min for winter solstice and 75 min for summer solstice. [Source]
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2021-09-01 16:30:05
TIL Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) was a computer magazine columnist in the 90s and his column became known for randomly referencing Uma Thurman and pranking readers. He is also credited with debunking a 90s era conspiracy theory which suggested Microsoft's Wingdings font contained secret messages [Source]
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2021-09-01 00:01:06
TIL of Elan School, a child behavior modification camp operating from 1970-2011. Using Lord of The Flies style techniques, they would psychologically destroy the children for years, leading to extraordinarily high suicide rates. If a child escaped, bounty hunters would chase them across the country. [Source]
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2021-08-31 16:30:05
TIL that Charles D. B. King holds the record for the most fraudulent election in history. In 1927 he was elected President of Liberia with 234,000 votes in a country that only had 15,000 registered voters at the time. [Source]
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