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TIL Steven Spielberg often asks his stars to forego a fee in favour of a percentage of the gross profits. Tom Cruise took 15% of ‘Minority Report’, amounting to $53.7 million…

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JBGm TIL When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.
oROpE TIL: In 1965, psychology researchers would often lie to elementary school teachers to conduct their experiments. Like this one, called the Pygmalion effect by Rosenthal and Jacobson.
A4Ka TIL That Skeletor is actually He-Man’s uncle.
WmEN TIL a US born nun was killed in Brazil for speaking out about the effect agriculture was having on deforestation of rainforests.
ADpBw TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.