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TIL Michael Bay’s response to his critics opinions of him. “I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.”

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nWXk9 TIL Orson Welles sent Herman Mankiewicz, a brilliant screenwriter and drunkard, to a desert retreat to sober up long enough to complete Mankiewicz's greatest work, the film Citizen Kane.
6EmEQ TIL that Danish priests still wear ruffs (those large frilled disk-like collars once popular across Europe centuries ago) today.
R7BV1 TIL The granddaughter of Chinese Republican founder Sun Yat-sen dreamed about him twice, where he instructed her to promote his theories. She gave up her successful career as a property developer in Hawaii to travel around the world and made over 700 speeches about her grandfather's principles
gmrA TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson criticized the scene in “Titanic” where Rose looks at the night sky after the ship sank, saying the placement of the stars was inaccurate. After speaking with Tyson, Cameron corrected the scene for the DVD- it was the only scene to be completely redone for the re-release.
ZpZxB TIL in 1905, American millionaire George Kessler threw himself a birthday party at the Savoy Hotel in London that involved flooding the entire courtyard with four feet of water so his guests could dine in gondolas and a five foot birthday cake brought out to them on the back of a baby elephant.