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TIL Christopher Lloyd was 37 in 1975 when he landed his first movie role “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He’s been in a movie nearly every year since and has been in 124 movies to date.

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5YZp8 TIL the quote "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those that speak it" was not written by George Orwell. It is misattributed as quoted by Orwell. It was quoted by Selwyn Duke.
M7MpB TIL 1820s movie audiences were 80% women
grZKL TIL about Ken Warby, the fastest man on water. He set the speed record in his homemade, wood boat in 1978 at 317.6mph (551.1 km/h), a record that still stands today.
Oo0Kg TIL that the original writer from Toy Story had a whole backstory for Andy's father and that the original house was the father's childhood home and Woody was actually the father's toy.
dLpQ TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 6th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.