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TIL: In late 90s Will Smith told Eminem, “You’ll either be the biggest flop, or the biggest thing we’ve ever seen”.

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b9g94 TIL that Bruce Willis is partially deaf in his left ear due to some of the loud explosions and gunfire while filming Die Hard. “Due to an accident on the first Die Hard, I suffer two-thirds partial hearing loss in my left ear and have a tendency to say, ‘Whaaa?’” Willis said.
aZR0 TIL in 1999 Alec Wildenstein had the most expensive divorce in history with a settlement of $3.8 billion. During the divorce the judge stipulated that Mrs. Wildenstein couldn’t spend any of the money on cosmetic surgery (During the marriage she spent $4 million on surgery to look like a cat)
x6aA1 TIL most audio recordings contain a background "mains hum" from electric power grid oscillations that can be matched with grid readings to date the clip to the second it was recorded.
x67Zo TIL about a fancy apartment in Paris that was abandoned in 1942. It became a time capsule that remained untouched until 2010.
N0Pb TIL that the latest Dragonball Z movie (Battle of Gods) was 1 of the 4 selected movies in 2012 that received funding from the Japanese government