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TIL for movie The Reader (2008), the filming of the movie had to be delayed for 2 years so that actor David Kross had turned 18 in order to shoot sex scenes with Kate Winslet.

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1aGdD TIL that male rhesus macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.
e7g5 TIL that a fortune cookie company once got the lottery numbers right, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation
Oy8e TIL, the screenwriter for the movie “Cast Away” stranded himself on an island for research, and when a volleyball washed up on shore, it became the inspiration for “Wilson.”
PYrvg TIL Barcodes were first invented to track railroad cars traveling across the country in the 1960s. A colored barcode was attached to steel plates on the side of train cars and scanned as they entered and exited railroad facilities.
OGkMY TIL while touring the battlefield Abraham Lincoln mounted a parapet to see the battle in progress. A soldier taking cover right next to him saw Lincoln exposing himself at risk and said "Get down you damn fool!" The soldier was none other than future supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.