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TIL | The person who made 2 girls 1 cup was sentenced to 4 years in prison for the film

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j68La TIL after viewing a rough cut of Romancing the Stone & expecting it to flop, the producers of the then-under-development Cocoon fired Robert Zemeckis as their film's director. But RtS was a surprise hit as the 6th-highest-grossing film of 1984 ($115 m) & allowed Zemeckis to make Back to the Future.
l8M7 TIL there is a Calvin and Hobbes search engine
nerRr TIL that Sam Houston, for whom the city of Houston is named, was deposed as governor of Texas by the legislature after refusing to support the Confederacy, saying “you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it.”
DEwp TIL The Lion King game led to the creation of Direct X.
R50L6 TIL that only around 15% of French words are Frankish in origin