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TIL that Ticketmaster was investigated by the DOJ for anticompetitive business practices. The investigation abruptly ended when Ticketmaster hired a firm whose former partners occupied top posts in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division

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96GM 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.
dPkB TIL the company that created the cgi effects for the film Interstellar (2014) had to change their program because all effects software assumed light goes in a strait line.
pY5yZ TIL of the Great Lego Spill - In 1997 a rogue wave caused a cargo ship to spill 4.8 million Lego pieces into the ocean, many are still being found today
lodRA TIL Children who suck their thumbs or bite their nails are less likely to have atopic sensitization (a reaction to common food or air born allergen) in childhood and adulthood.