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TIL Stephen King’s website has a “Dollar Babies” page - stories he’s willing to sell to film students for $1.

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YpQjZ TIL at the age of 14, in 1905, Charles de Gaulle wrote a short story titled "General De Gaulle" in which he imagined himself leading the French Army to victory over Germany "sometime in the 1930s."
jWPE TIL that when Carrie Fisher was asked wether she knew that Star Wars would be as successfull as it turned out to be she said “Yes, I knew. We all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George. We kept it from him because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression.”
wLkGY TIL Yellowstone National Park suffered 50+ years of ecological damage due to eradication of the Gray Wolf. After re-introduction, the environment is slowly stabilizing.
4XY6w TIL - In 1836 a lowly sewer worker asked the governors at the Bank of England to meet him in the vault because he had identified a breach of security. Incredulously they complied, only to see the man pop up to join them through a hole in the floor by moving a few floorboards.
aw18Z TIL that the name for Director Brian Singer's production company Bad Hat Harry Productions (X-Men, The Usual Suspects, House, M.D.), and the quote that accompanies the "Vanity Card" shown at the end of a TV Show they produced, are taken from Jaws.