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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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AD7Xa TIL About The Phoebus Cartel - A secret organization which intentionally shortened the lifespan of light bulbs to force consumers to buy bulbs more often.
epwJD TIL Tim Sweeney, Epic Games CEO originally wrote 90% of the code for the first Unreal Game Engine and has since used his fortune to protect more than 50,000 acres of forests for conservation purposes
Z8DkY TIL that in Michelangelo’s famous painting “The Creation of Adam”, there is an anatomically correct image of the human brain behind God, with his right arm extending to the prefrontal cortex, the most “human” part of the brain.
0vJL TIL When Paris fell to the Nazis on June 14, 1940, French resistance fighters cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, a soldier would have to climb the roughly 1710 stairs to the summit platform.
D16RV TIL that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was within months of completing a several mile section of expressway only to cancel the project. Bridges were built, guardrails installed, and funding dried up. They seeded the right of way to prevent erosion and allowed farm animals to graze.