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TIL the scene where Jim Carrey makes “the Most Annoying Sound in the World” was unscripted, Even hitman Mike Starr’s hissy fit reaction to the scene was unscripted

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7daM TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.
jNLjQ TIL that Mark Twain wrote the very first novel that was ever written with a typewriter. That novel was Tom Sawyer
B77y TIL The hit song “Blinded by the Light” was written by and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, who made it by going through a rhyming dictionary and looking for rhymes and ended up being unsuccessful, but was covered by Manfred Man and became a #1 hit.
rgpy TIL It has been calculated that due to time dilation, the core of the Earth is 2.5 years younger than the crust.
8agAb TIL that in the 70's, McDonald's briefly had a mascot for the Filet-O-Fish: Phil A. O'Fish