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TIL In his later years Hugh Hefner received $1 million annually for all of his Playboy shares and paid $100/year to live in the Playboy Mansion

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VMeXQ TIL the #1 driver of "involuntary singlehood" is a person not knowing how to flirt correctly. The #2 driver was an inability to perceive signals of interest. #3 was a lack of effort.
5nln TIL that Wes Craven - director of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes and Scream - had never seen a movie until college because of his strict Baptist upbringing.
awDbL TIL For Raging Bull Robert De Niro trained over 1,000 rounds with Jake LaMotta and fought 3 amateur fights. Causing LaMotta to think Robert De Niro had what it took become a professional contender
ePXb TIL that as the Titanic sank, someone unlocked the kennels holding all the passengers’ pet dogs, “leading to the surreal sight of a pack of excited dogs racing up and down the slanting deck as the ship went down.”
0w0jN TIL Avatar (2009) was intended to have a different OST, to reflect alien cultures, and instead was replaced with more generic music after director James Cameron thought it sounded "too alien".