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TIL That Prince has enough unreleased material to put out an album ever year for the next 100 years.

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vPQ7L TIL of hyraceum, a material made from petrified hyrax poop that is often used in perfumes
nWLjb TIL about Brandon Burlsworth, a walk-on at Arkansas, who ended up becoming an All-American and getting drafted in the third round, only to die in a car accident before playing a snap of professional football.
yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia
GALaG TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another.
M7bW8 TIL: That the movie 'Cape Fear' was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, but he eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Martin Scorsese in exchange for 'Schindler's List', which Scorsese had decided not to make.