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TIL James Cameron DIDN'T quit truck driving to explore his artistic side, He drove trucks to fund it.

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VMKoZ TIL Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" was inspired by a young lady he just met, named Amy Lehrhaupt. He tried to contact her for years, but she never appeared, Later he discovered she died before the 1st movie came out. At the of the 3rd movie, on the credits, we can read "Dedicated to to Amy"
9YMJ7 TIL Concrete never stops curing. It will literally take forever to completely set. Also, cracking is a natural occurrence in concrete, so don't panic if you see a crack in your sidewalk.
OAre TIL: During an interview, Louis CK once directly asked Donald Rumsfeld if he was a flesh eating lizard that fed on the poor. He even asked if he ate Mexican babies…
LoRP TIL a man in Nebraska is breeding red cows and sending them to Israel in hopes of a pure red heifer being born there; such an event will allegedly prompt Jews to build a Third Temple, which fundamentalist Christians believe will usher in Jesus’ Second Coming.
LgQr TIL Because vinyl was so scarce and expensive in the USSR, bootleggers figured out a way to print records on old discarded X-ray films.