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TIL when studio execs refused to release Brazil, Terry Gilliam took out a full-page ad in Variety, urging them to release it. He also conducted private screenings without their knowledge. They only released it after Brazil was awarded “Best Picture” by the LA Critics association.

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GaJQ TIL in France it is illegal to gather information on the ethnic origin of its citizens therefore it is impossible to know the percentage of ethnic French who inhabit France.
rRAGW TIL of "Long Sleeping Disorder" in which the individual affected needs at least 10 to 12 hours of sleep a night. There is no cure, no negative implications, although some link to introversion. It affects only 2% of the entire world population.
m1vPE TIL that the father of the Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger, Stu, loved picking up young hitchhikers in the ‘60s & ‘70s as it gave him an opportunity to brag about his son. Robby’s dad was also the one who got Ray Manzarek his Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, which was an important part of the Doors’ sound.
m1aap TIL that Chinese Pizza Hut removed all salad bars as patrons would exploit the one-bowl rule by constructing a massive salad tower. Many people created extremely complicated and articulate engineering structures. Multiple people even successfully submitted them as civil engineering class projects.
5VQ5B TIL that bulimia is socially contagious. Fiji had never had a report of anyone with an eating disorder, but within three years after television was introduced in 1995, a study found 11% of Fiji’s adolescent girls had purged their food at least once. By 2007, it was 45%.