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TIL that the Spiders could theoretically eat all humans on Earth in just one year

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N7L81 TIL that Jason Weaver, who supplied young Simba’s singing voice in the Lion King (1994), turned down a $2 million upfront payment and instead negotiated with Disney for $100k + royalties (thanks to his mom). Royalties have netted him well over $2 million since.
VMM1D TIL that researchers who have studied Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, believe there is some correlation to the uncanny valley effect, in which a figure is lifelike enough to be disturbing, but not realistic enough to be pleasant.
GEPG TIL in 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called “U.F.O.“, which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.
61lW TIL that the United States consumes 80% of the world’s supply of pain killers and annually kills more Americans than cocaine and heroin combined.
x6aR7 TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies (1985), is now a Hollywood lawyer and actually negotiated the contract of his former Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan (played Data in Goonies) for his casting in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)