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TIL: Dreamworks had to pay a 7 figure settlement for infringement after the 2005 film "The Island" bore a striking resemblance to the 1979 film "Parts: The Clonus Horror"

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0wZvv TIL that Keanu Reeves was initially offered Val Kilmer's role in the 1995 film Heat. He turned it down to play Hamlet in a 789 seat theatre in Manitoba.
grwg8 TIL that seventy-nine ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months without its head and became famous.
x6511 TIL that The Philippines consists of 7,641 islands, about 2,000 of which are inhabited that form an archipelago.
DVBV TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
Ae57 TIL: When children are vaccinated against measles, their risk of dying from other infectious diseases falls by half. Scientists believe this is because catching the measles can weaken your immune system for years.