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TIL Matt Damon was offered the lead in Avatar & 10% of the film's profits, but turned it down out of respect for his verbal commitment to the ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ & ended up losing out on nearly $300 million

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WkDRo TIL that Bob Ezrin, the producer of Pink Floyd's The Wall album, was banned from coming to the "Wall tour" shows by Roger Waters — he was angry that Ezrin had leaked the concept of the show to a journalist friend (unintendingly acc. to Ezrin). Ezrin bought his own ticket and went anyway.
jnBM TIL in 1959 popular teen heartthrob Neil Sedaka had his first international hit with “Oh! Carol”, addressed to his high school girlfriend Carol Klein. She would later go on to find even greater success of her own as a singer and songwriter under the name Carole King.
84LL TIL the library posters in “The Breakfast Club” can also be seen in the school halls of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Both John Hughes films were shot back-to-back to save time and money.
6JkZ TIL that James May of Top Gear/Grand Tour fame not only bested Gordon Ramsay in a ‘test of man’ competition (which ended with the two eating rotten shark) but beat him in culinary competition while drunk on white wine.
d87K9 TIL Jonas Salk, who played a key role in prevention of polio outbreaks, entered college as a pre-law student, hoping to be elected to Congress one day. He switched to medicine because his mother thought that he wouldn't become a successful lawyer.