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Jul 18, 2020

TIL The percontation mark ⸮, sometimes called the 'irony mark', was a 16th-century suggestion for indicating a rhetorical question. Who knew⸮ Could we have messed this up any more⸮ etc.

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Jul 18, 2020

TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening said he was the fan of Beavis and Butthead, because the show largely took "the heat off Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization."

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Jul 16, 2020

TIL Weird Al wanted to make a parody of “Live and Let Die” titled “Chicken Pot Pie”; but Paul McCartney refused because he is vegetarian, and couldn’t condone a song about eating meat.

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Jul 12, 2020

TIL that for the movie "O Brother, Where art Thou?", the cows that were shot and hit by the police car looked so realistic that the American Humane Society wouldn't immediately certify the movie as "No Animals Were Harmed". A representative had to be shown how they were digitally created ten times.

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Jun 16, 2020

TIL that a toxin in bee venom called melittin may prevent HIV. Melittin can kill HIV by poking holes into the virus's protective envelope. Bee stings may also ease pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists found that molecules in bee venom increase your body's level of glucocorticoid, an anti-

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May 21, 2020

TIL that Katsuya Eguchi, the creator for the game Animal Crossing, drew his inspiration for it from experiences of having to move from where he grew up to moving to Nintendo headquarters and wanted to "recreate the feeling of being alone in a new town, away from friends and family."

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May 21, 2020

TIL that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (starring Clint Eastwood), one of the most famous westerns of all time, was written, directed, & produced by Italians in Italy. It was part of a popular trend of low budget Italian westerns called “Spaghetti Westerns”.

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May 15, 2020

TIL TV executive Fred Silverman got the inspiration for Scooby-Doo's name from Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers In The Night." The syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" can be heard at the end of the song. Silverman used Sinatra's improvisation to help name the cartoon canine.

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May 08, 2020

TIL The Queen has been the face of so many currencies and has reigned for so long that it is possible to observe her aging process on Commonwealth banknotes.

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Apr 17, 2020

TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.

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Apr 16, 2020

TIL Bald eagles share parenting duties: The male and the female take turns incubating the eggs, and they both feed their young. They usually mate for life too.

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Apr 06, 2020

TIL that when Mel Brooks was 16 years old, he worked for a theatrical producer who raised funds by sleeping with his investors, most of whom were elderly women. He also knew two showmen who created flop after flop, but still profited. They inspired him to make the 1967 film, “The Producers”.

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Apr 04, 2020

TIL Anne Hathaway won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables with only 15 minutes of screentime across the entire film

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Mar 30, 2020

TIL That Psycho is the very first movie to ever a show a toilet.

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Mar 27, 2020

TIL in Scrabble, The Word "OXYPHENBUTAZONE" is Theoretically the Highest Possible Scoring Word, Netting 1778 Points. It Has Never Been Played.

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Mar 14, 2020

TIL Ben Franklin was such an incredible swimmer that he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.

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Feb 20, 2020

TIL Grizzly Bears are strong enough to smack a human's head off, crushing crushing a bowling ball with their jaws, and running 35 mph

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Jan 31, 2020

TIL that "Zyzzyx Road," a 2006 thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl, was released in just one theater for a week. During its short run, a total of six people saw the film, which resulted in $30 in ticket sales, making it the lowest-grossing movie of all time.

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Jan 28, 2020

TIL that since Martin Van Buren was born in 1782, after the American Revolution had ended and six years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, this makes him technically the first American-born U.S. President in history.

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Jan 14, 2020

TIL that Mel Blanc, the voice of Barney Rubble, suffered a car crash during production of Season 1 and so the actors would crowd around his hospital bed to record lines while the producers used a built in speaker to direct. Around forty episodes were recorded in such a manner.

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