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TIL That while filming Gummo some of the actors rebelled against the disgusting locations in which Harmony Korine wanted to shoot. Korine was forced to buy Hazmat suits for some of the cast, while he and his Cinematographer wore Speedos and flip-flops to piss them off.

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ZwZY TIL that the Nobel prize is sometimes called No-Bell prize because Joycelyn Bell Burnell did not share in the 1974 Nobel Prize for the first observation of radio pulsars, despite the fact that she was the one who had actually observed them.
WkkG4 "Lightning. It avoids the ocean but likes Florida. It’s attracted to the Himalayas and even more so to central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the north or south poles."
ZpVrY TIL: The twins that played in the Disney show "The Suite Life of Zach and Cody" are the same twins that played the kid that Adam Sandler raises in the 1999 movie "Big Daddy"
5aXB TIL of a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.
XE6Wk TIL that Orson Welles was only 23 years old when he made "War of the Worlds," the 1938 radio play that allegedly fooled some listeners into thinking Earth was being invaded by Martians. He was 25 when he made "Citizen Kane," still considered one of the greatest American films of all time.