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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was not excited about making 'The Terminator'. An interviewer asked him about a pair of shoes he had, which belonged to the wardrobe for The Terminator, Schwarzenegger responded to the interviewer saying "Oh some sh*t movie I'm doing, take a couple weeks."

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YjZ7 TIL found roaming outside Canberra, Australia, Chris the sheep avoided shearing for years. The fleece was so massive, Chris could barely walk. It took five shearers 42 minutes to remove 89 pounds of wool, which set an (unofficial) world record for most wool.
R5aWw TIL that numerous writers who have worked on the comic book character John Constantine have, independently of one another, claimed to have been approached by him in real life, despite him being a fictional character
E1k4V TIL that if your fingers are severed and reattached, or undergo nerve damage, they will no longer shrivel in water.
VBME4 TIL That the mirror doctors are portrayed as wearing on their head was meant to be worn over one of the doctor's eyes when in use.
D1bOr TIL That the Twinkie diet study, which aimed to prove that only calories mattered for weight loss, was secretly (at the time) funded by Coca-Cola.