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TIL while directing Jurassic Park, when Spielberg saw CGI of T. rex, he said to stop motion animator Phil Tippett , “You’re out of a job,” to which Tippett replied, “Don’t you mean extinct?”. Spielberg later incorporated this dialogue into the movie

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MeLjB TIL On June 8, 1978, Larry Bird signed a five-year, $3.25 million contract with the Boston Celtics making him the highest-paid rookie in sports history at the time.
7rLoM TIL that during construction of the new Yankee Stadium, a construction worker and avid Boston Red Sox fan buried a replica jersey of Red Sox player David Ortiz underneath the visitors' dugout with the objective of placing a "hex" on the Yankees, much like the "Curse of the Bambino."
4V1a TIL Lebron James once went to a steakhouse, stayed 4 hours past closing, left a 1% tip on an $800 check, made the bartenders cry and even forced one bartender to quit.
Zp7YQ TIL the punctuation following standard measurements, like 5’7”, aren’t quotation marks — they’re primes.
gQpb TIL that adding a trace of blue dye to laundry, called “bluing,” actually makes the whites appear whiter. It is a technique also used on white hair, thus “blue haired old ladies.”