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TIL that Steven Spielberg is an uncredited executive producer of every single live-action Transformers film

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v14Vx TIL that the author Edward Bunker (who played "Mr. Blue" in "Reservoir Dogs") did time in San Quentin with Danny Trejo. Bunker, remembering Trejo's boxing skills, offered Danny $320 per day to train Eric Roberts, for a boxing scene in the 1985 Movie "Runaway Train".
9kb6 TIL that by telling people about your “next big idea”, you lose all motivation to deliver it
ANREg TIL when Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281, typhoons struck both times, causing significant damage to the fleets. Japan successfully repelled the invasions, and the Mongols never attacked again. The typhoons are called "kamikaze" and are said to have saved Japan.
NrJ1 TIL the story behind the book “I love you forever” was originally written as a song for Robert Munsch’s two stillborn babies.
pdZG TIL Indians are the world’s biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey.