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TIL that Cole and Dylan Sprouse are now the same age Adam Sandler was when he played their adoptive dad in Big Daddy

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VM9Pm TIL that during his research on heroin addicts for the film "Trainspotting" (1996), Ewan McGregor considered taking the drug, but decided not to. (Neon. p. 103)
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