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Til Kevin Smith is Vice President of The Wayne Foundation, which fights against sex trafficking and exploitation of children. The name was his idea.

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7rPQp TIL Kurt Russell unknowingly destroyed a priceless 1860s Martin acoustic guitar, on loan from the Martin Museum, in the movie The Hateful Eight. The Martin Museum was so upset about the incident, that they vowed to never loan out guitars for film production again.
O1GL TIL that the word “metaphysics” literally means “after physics”. An early editor of Aristotle’s works needed a placeholder name for the untitled philosophical book that came after the the book he called Physics.
wLXDE You'd have to click a mouse roughly 10 million times to burn 1 calorie.
ANdwn TIL in 2010, then stripper Bryan Hawn attempted to raise a 6-week old hyena, Jake, in a 1 bedroom apartment in Miami. This continued for 11 months, until Hawn was forced to re-home the hyena after it bit a friend, destroyed his plumbing, pooped everywhere, and broke his arm. They remain close.
OAjR TIL there was once a teenage contestant thrown out of the 2012 National Scrabble Championships because he was found to be concealing two blank tiles.