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TIL when James Cameron was an unknown director, he sold the rights to "The Terminator" for $1 so that he would be allow to direct the movie.

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Z86OY TIL When a student saxophone player swaps a cheap mouthpiece for a decent one, it feels like playing a new instrument. The instrument's bell is the least important part of the equation, and as you move closer to the mouth, the more the equipment is going to have an effect on your playing
1RYO TIL Harvard once Expelled Ten Students for Being Gay in a Secret Kangaroo Court until Being Revealed in 2002
0dWKj TIL that before water fountains were used for people to drink water freely in public, people used to drink from something called the "common cup", a publicly shared and very unhygienic cup or ladle-type spoon attached by string.
gM7ky TIL - The earliest known written use of the term “motherfucker” was from a Texas court case in 1889. Witnesses described a defendant being called a “God damned mother-f—cking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch.” Mother-fucking was the only expletive to get censored in the court transcript.
Q6Xp TIL Washington state was originally to be called Columbia but some thought it may be confused with the District of Columbia so it was rejected.