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TIL Mean Girls was based on self-help book aimed at parents of teenage girls

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Y7QRd TIL Christian Bale took inspiration for the character of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000) from fellow actor Tom Cruise.
Mpl0 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections, rather than with a single, continuous pour, the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
yVlYe TIL that Mike Tyson’s famous profanity ridden tirade at the press conference for the build up to his fight with Lennox Lewis, was caused after a journalist suggested Tyson should be put in a straight jacket.
RpB7 TIL that North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.
9wDYQ TIL that IHOP actually stands for International House of Pancakes