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TIL M. Night Shyamalan dropped out of the Life of Pi film because he thought his name would besmirch the movie because it had a twist ending.

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a8MwL TIL there's no medically safe amount of alcohol to drink
VBJJ8 TIL that the term “brain freeze,” to describe a cold-stimulus headache, is a registered trademark of 7-Eleven.
8aKO4 TIL of The Essex, an American ship which was attacked by a sperm whale in 1820. The 20-man crew set out in the surviving life boats for several months, resorting to drawing lots to decide who would be sacrificed and consumed. 8 men survived. The story was the inspiration for the novel 'Moby Dick'.
kbJd TIL Home Improvement for the SNES did not include a real manual. Instead, it included a fake manual with a sticker reading “Real men don’t need instructions”.
6mpX TIL Eminem was interviewed on 60 Minutes and showed Anderson Cooper how to rhyme the word “orange” by making it two syllables: “I put my orange four-inch door-hinge in storage and ate porridge with George.”