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TIL that when Adam Driver served in the military after 9/11, he was almost deployed to Iraq but was medically discharged after fracturing his sternum while mountain biking. He enrolled in Juilliard soon after his discharge.

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yQx4a TIL the original script for Fight Club was found to be 6 hours long in the initial reading. However, the film's creators managed to cut it down to 139 minutes.
vPbK7 TIL Rick James & Neil Young were in a band together (the Mynah Birds). A 16yo James was in Canada avoiding military duty, & got saved from a fight by Levon Helm, who introduced him to the music scene. He only played w/ Young for 6 months, til their crooked manager ratted out James, who was jailed
E1yAo TIL One of the reasons a full circle is 'decided' to be 360 degrees (and not a more obvious number, such as 100) because 360 is divisible by 24 different numbers, which makes it easy for math calculations. In contrast, 100 is only divisible by 9 different numbers.
EAoP TIL cows with personal names like Betsy give 5% more milk than cows with no name or impersonal names like “cow 12345”
oRNg7 TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books.