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TIL there was a funded study on impact of piracy on sales which results were withheld by EU presumably due to finding no negative impact

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W7L TIL before Ang Lee directed Brokeback Mountain, Gus Van Sant wanted to make a version starring Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix. It never got off the ground, partially because Matt Damon “didn’t want to do a gay cowboy movie right after doing a gay movie and a cowboy movie”.
VMgjp TIL Greek poet Hipponax was so good at insulting people that some of them killed themselves
xV0eg TIL about Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who among other things, sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
Bavk TIL Daryl Hall and John Oates (Hall & Oates) first met each other in a service elevator of a club, while fleeing from gunfire between two rival gangs.
Z8n5R TIL that Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield, probably suffered from neurosyphillis, perhaps caught from a prostitute. He spent several years at a free love commune but could not get any of the women there to sleep with him, even earning the nickname "Charles Git-out"