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TIL Joaquin Phoenix's birth name is Joaquin Bottom.

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Z8mG TIL Harrison Ford uses his personal helicopter in search and rescue missions
7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.
ADJlg TIL that Joan Jett's song "I Love Rock N' Roll" is actually a cover song. The original one was sung by a group called The Arrows.
BXPk TIL that Henry Ford was the first Industrial Giant to give his workers both Saturday and Sunday off, in hope that it would encourage more leisure use of automobiles, and thus popularizing the idea of the “weekend”.
EgGKP TIL Hitchcock wasn't original going to score the famous shower scene in Psycho, but the composer scored it anyway. The composer also ignored Hitchcock's directive in another movie resulting in an end of their collaboration