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TIL Adam Sandler’s 2011 movie “Jack and Jill” was nominated for all 10 Razzie Awards and won every single one.

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lxnB TIL that Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”
YRkP TIL American soldiers in WWI who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with model 1897s and were stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair. This would deflect the grenades from falling into the American trenches and therefore protect American soldiers
xVRmw TIL The Old Curiosity Shop in London made famous by Charles Dickens actually exists, and has been a shop for almost five centuries
MbK7 TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state
dDE88 TIL No matter whose car I drive I will always know what side the gas tank is on.