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TIL of Paint Drying, a 10 hour movie about paint drying on a wall. Created as a protest to force British Board of Film Classification watch all 10 hours to rate the movie

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0wWa1 TIL that there is a basketball court above the actual supreme court room aptly named "The Highest Court in the Land"
5VlJr TIL: Charles Darwin spent 6 months in South America looking for a lesser rhea (an ostrich-like bird) only to have one served to him for dinner. Halfway through the meal, Darwin realized what he was eating, gathered the parts and sent them to England for taxidermy and formal classification.
yQW1l TIL that "Chunk" from The Goonies is now an entertainment lawyer
VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.
kJBk7 TIL: Howard Hughes invented the prototype pushup bra because he was obsessed with Jane Russell's chest