Post * 9YnYB — Curious Curator

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TIL Neither Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, nor Ivan Reitman took a salary took for making the movie "Twins".

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aw1Vb TIL that barbers in Turkey use fire to singe off the fine hairs in your ears

VMpwp TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects

awDVJ TIL that the 1994 box office bomb Baby's Day Out was a huge hit in South Asia, beating Star Wars as the most successful American film. It was played for over a year at the largest theater in Calcutta and spawned two remakes

WkR7L TIL that the Bud Light "Real American Heroes" ads were changed to "Real Men of Genius" after 9/11 because "the irony was gone and it seemed very inappropriate to run it that way"

eaDb TIL York, the only African slave on the Lewis and Clark Expeditions, was thought of as a wild, spiritual creature by the Arikara Indians, saved Meriwether Lewis from a Grizzly Bear, and was responsible for many decisions along the journey.