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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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0661 TIL that the role of Captain Jack Sparrow was initially offered to Jim Carrey but he turned it down for Bruce Almighty.
e0mob TIL Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" was never about the meatpacking industry. Sinclair intended it as a "breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit".
xVY87 TIL The Mighty Ducks (1992) was originally written much darker than the family-friendly movie ended up being. The script had more adult romance, dark humor, and emphasized Gordon Bombay's drinking. Which explains his name being the combination of two famous Gin brands, "Gordon's" & "Bombay"
JaMV TIL during a TV show, Frank Zappa was asked by a WW2 veteran with a wooden leg : “so I guess your long hair makes you a woman”. He replied “so I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.”
ne6no TIL that a cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975