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TIL that Guillermo del Toro left years of notes for a film in the back of a cab, he thought it was the end of the project. However, the cab driver found them and, realizing their importance, tracked him down and returned them. It made Del Toro ever more determined to complete “Pan’s Labyrinth”.

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8aj8G TIL that in the original "Wayne's World" script, the T-1000 simply told Wayne "you're speeding". The line was changed at the last second when a producer's son said it wasn't funny.
9w8bp TIL in the UK alone, some 7 million Halloween costumes are binned each year, equivalent of 2000 tons of plastic, and globally less than 13% of material inputs to clothing manufacture are recycled and only 1% of clothing textiles are recycled into new clothes. According to The Fairyland Trust.
7k1X TIL: Walruses don’t use their tusks to dig for food, they use their lips to dig for food. Their tusks are used to poke holes in the ice so they can pull themselves out of the water.
mx8NM TIL that while repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying "out, out, out," and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them.
M71gV TIL the world's oldest terrarium / sealed bottle ecosystem has been thriving since 1960. The 10-gallon bottle is like a mini Earth. It has only been opened once in 53 years to add a bit more water (in 1972). Otherwise it has been sealed without fresh water or air.