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TIL Brendan Fraser pays $900,000 a year in alimony to his ex-wife Afton Smith. They got separated in 2008…

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VMb1p TIL that we owe the iconic Star Wars' opening text to Brian De Palma. After seeing an early cut of A New Hope, he strongly complained to George Lucas, calling the movie "non-sense". The idea for an introductive crawling text came from the ensuing exchange.
pYwXA TIL: The Ron Howard movie, Gung Ho, is used by Toyota as an example of how not to manage Americans.
d8aQj TIL that Tolkien never once describes the elves as having pointed ears.
kDa4 TIL of the Taxil Hoax, where a Frenchman spent 12 years as a Roman Catholic writing anti-Masonic accounts, only to reveal it was a prank on the Church. As he said “…I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity”
NPMP TIL When it was discovered that Hasbro’s flubber toy was discovered to be toxic they attempted to incinerate the remaining stock (which didn’t work) then attempted to bury it in the ocean (it just floated to the top) and finally buried it under a new parking lot.