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TIL That BOTH The Failed Videogame "CONCORD" AND The Salvage Costs For The COSTA CONCORDIA cost $400 Million...

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xVm9k TIL that Tom Hanks has a brother named Jim who has substituted for voice roles like "Woody" in various things like video games.
Zoxv TIL the volleyball “character” of Wilson in Cast Away was created by the film’s screenwriter after he deliberately stranded himself on an isolated beach for a week and a volleyball washed ashore. This was the inspiration for the film’s inanimate companion.
D1K5v TIL that natives used to cure leather with animal brains to make it stay soft even after it gets wet.
4kg8N TIL copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form, leading it to be perhaps the first metal to be mined and crafted by humans.
m1dEy TIL: The home arena for the LA Lakers and Clippers, changed names in December 2021. It was the Staples Center but is now the Crypto. com Arena.