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TIL that Christopher Nolan was so secretive about Interstellar that he initially asked Hans Zimmer to compose the score with just a one-page story about a father who leaves his child to do an important job instead of giving him the script. It contained two lines of dialogue: "I'll come back & when?"

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ZpjQQ TIL test screenings for “Edward Scissorhands” were so encouraging, the President of 20th Century Fox considered marketing the film on the scale of "an E.T.-sized blockbuster," but conceded, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”
d4Z9 TIL the US military would play Enter Sandman for hours on end to aid in the interrogation and torture of prisoners. Asked about this, Metallica’s James Hetfield responded “We’ve been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music for ever. Why should the Iraqis be any different?”
Wk6O8 TIL researchers have discovered multiple hidden "civilizations" of octupuses referred to as Octlantis
eAL TIL a kamikaze pilot who struck the USS Missouri during WWII was given a military burial at sea with full honors after the captain decided the young Japanese pilot had done his job to the best of his ability. The dent in the side of the ship remains to this day.
b6G90 TIL that the earth goddess in Slavic was known as “Mother (Moist) Earth” and followers would prevent plague by digging a furrow around a village and shrieking.