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TIL that in the film, “This is the End”, Michael Cera slapping Rihanna’s butt was real. Cera asked for Rihanna’s permission to actually slap her butt. She agreed, only if she was allowed to slap Cera back even harder in the face.

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GnRJ TIL that when the Tsar Bomba (the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated) was tested, the fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and it’s yield (50 mt) was about half the maximum yield of the bomb’s design (100 Mt).
QNXDe TIL Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolours. He also had the opportunity to kill the man who helped put him away, but he chose not to. He’s due to be paid $1.5 million for being wrongfully convicted.
X0DMD TIL about Wallace "Wally" Bowers. Struggling to support four kids and a wife dying of cancer, he picked up additional weekend work for a logging company. He was killed during the eruption of Mount St. Helens of May 1980. His wife died three months later from her illness.
R7by4 TIL of the New Zealand Black Robin that went from extinct to threatened after scientists found 6 males and 1 female on a rocky island isolated from introduced predatory species. today there are hundreds of Black Robins.
j6gVa TIL the iPhone Steve Jobs demoed on Jan 9, 2007 at MacWorld was a buggy prototype, barely functional at the time. They had to meticulously rehearse the presentation so the phone wouldn't crash mid-show. The final version was only completed weeks before it hit stores.