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TIL in 1959 Alfred Hitchcock was approached to direct the first James Bond movie. However, he did not want to make another spy thriller right after "North by Northwest", and instead started working on "Psycho".

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7r0wx TIL That Nirvana once purposefully butchered Smells like Teen Spirit while performing live on the British TV show "Top of the Pops". The network forced them to play over a pre recorded tape which the band disliked. They proceeded to jokingly play their instruments and changed the lyrics of the song
6ED4l TIL in 2006 a Filipino-born Canadian boy was punished by his school for using his cutlery according to Filipino etiquette. The teacher sanctioned the 7-year-old Luc for what the school called "disgusting" and "piggish" eating habits: using a fork to push his food onto a spoon before eating it.
jvPN TIL that harvesting cork from the cork tree does not kill it, and regrows fully in 9 years.
5V7JR TIL if you're 21 or over in Michigan you can legally drive with a bodily alcohol contact up to .08 but if you're under 21 it's .02, so a 20-year-old is "drunk driving" at an .03 but a 21-year-old can legally drive up to .07
5VQZP TIL it's not safe for a pregnant woman to eat baloney