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TIL that even after 8years Britney Spears is still under a conservatorship which is reserved usually for people mentally ill or in vegetative state.Her father makes $130k just as her conservator & doesn’t allow her to hire own lawyers & has custody of her two sons.It could last forever.

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OG6RY TIL when the 1984 film “Red Dawn” was in production, it was reported that a T-72 tank built for the film was such a precise replica, that while it was being carted around Los Angeles, two CIA intelligence officers followed the tank to the movie studio wanting to know where it had come from.
QNnPa TIL "In 1956, the students of the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre arts voted two actors as the least likely to succeed: two friends, Gene Hackman (who had the lowest grades at that point in the history of the school) and Dustin Hoffmann. Both went on to win two Oscars each
nDxB TIL of the Ikea effect, where you give a higher value to things you built.
87w4 TIL When George Lucas was filming the Sandcrawler (in A New Hope) in Tunisia, the Tunisian government asked him to move it away from the Libyan border after Libya threatened military action, thinking it was a large war vehicle.
78mGx TIL that in 1989 Val Kilmer punched and threw actress Caitlin O’Heaney to the floor during an audition for the lead female role of The Doors. There was not any punching in the scene Oliver Stone laughed about it and the company wrote her a check for $24,500 to not discuss the allegations publicly.