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TIL the same guy ghostwrote the novelizations for STAR WARS, STAR TREK, and ALIEN.

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lpar TIL that actor Brian Cox is diabetic and that in the film Super Troopers he was required to eat a prop that looked like a bar of soap but was in fact made of white chocolate. He spat it out and instead of waiting around for a sugar-free replacement, he ate a real bar of soap instead.
xrO1 TIL A recipe found in a 1,000-year-old medical text book has been shown to kill methicillin-resistant staph.
YpKRd TIL about The Really Terrible Orchestra, founded by author Alexander McCall Smith in 1995. It exists for the musically challenged aka. "those who have been prevented from playing music through lack of talent".
4ko0o TIL about the Overcoat, an animated film that has been worked on since 1981. Director Yuri Norstein refuses any extra help, or a computer for his animation.
l77P1 TIL that in 1923 a small town in Kansas elected a 3-year-old as mayor, but he was removed 5 months later because the people realized that he wasn't able to run the entire town