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TIL, Whiplash (2014), was shot in 19 days, with a schedule of 14 hours of filming per day. Also, Chazelle (Director) was involved in a serious car accident in the third week of shooting and was hospitalized with possible concussion, but he returned to set the next day to finish the film on time.

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p8aR8 TIL that 1 in 400 solitaire hands are totally unplayable, meaning "no cards can be moved to the foundations even at the start of the game"
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d8Bl9 TIL Meat Loaf has sold over 200,000 copies of his first album Bat out of Hell (1977) every year for the past 40 years, making it one of the most successful albums of all time.
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aRvJ TIL that the song “Barbie girl” by Aqua sparked a 5 year law suit between Mattel and the recording studio MCA Records, which the judge concluded with saying: “The parties are advised to chill.”