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TIL that over 60% of the top 1000 most popular videos on YouTube are blocked in Germany.

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nevxd TIL that Iron Man started filming before the script was finished. As a result, most of the dialog in the movie is improvised because the director felt that it would make the movie feel more natural
16844 TIL that anime is actually very old, going back to the beginning of the 20th century, and really is a refraction of Japanese art and culture. One of the oldest known anime films is "Namakura Gatana," released in 1917.
1aw8X TIL “Licensed to Ill” by the Beastie Boys was originally going to be named “Don’t be a Fagot” but Columbia wouldn’t allow it
9w6A6 TIL that after reading the first draft of "Smokey and the Bandit", Burt Reynolds told its director Hal Needham that it was the worst script he had ever read, but that he would still make the movie. Most of the dialogue in the movie was improvised on set.
RwV1 TIL in 1990, parents sued Judas Priest over their son’s suicide, claiming a song contained the words “Do it” when listened to backwards. Judas Priest won the case, and said if they did add subliminal messages, it would have said “Buy seven records”