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TIL that once during a party at his mansion in New Orleans, Nick Cage revealed his two-headed snake, Harvey, after Harvey Dent. Among the crowd in attendance was Werner Herzog who insisted the snake be in his next film. Cage replied “No, I’m not putting it into the movie because this is personal.”

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GAPpE TIL actor John Larroquette was the uncredited narrator of the prologue to the 1974 horror movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In lieu of cash, he was paid by the Director Tobe Hooper in Marijuana.
NXpY1 TIL: In the UK they call Rube Goldberg machines "Heath Robinson contraptions"
vPNBr TIL Alex Hirsch’s (creator of Gravity Falls) first TV role was actually on the Late Show with David Letterman. He had won his High School bird Calling competition and was 17.
6EKQw TIL that in the 1950s, the Russians created the first ternary computer, The Setun, which recognizes 1,0 and -1. It’s more efficient than the 1, 0 of binary.
lJMK TIL in 1995 drug giant GlaxoSmithKline gathered over one hundred black and hispanic orphans, including toddlers and babies, to test the “toxicity” of their AIDS medication on them. They continued to do this for nearly ten years.