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TIL that North Korea has a VHS copy of Space Jam enshrined in a musuem

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GYykJ TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was given top billing and paid $25 million dollars for his role of Mr. Freeze, equating to roughly $1 million dollars for each of his 27 ice puns in the film.
RnAa TIL, that ancient sloths were as big as rhinos. They were only exceeded in size by mammoths in other land mammals. There eventual extinction was due to human hunters.
DQ7Kg TIL that the stereotypical depiction of Frankenstein's monster has green skin because green makeup made him look corpse like in black and white film and they kept it for color adaptations.
8oZ8 TIL the Rolling Stones get all royalties for The Verve’s hit “Bittersweet Symphony” despite The Verve being granted permission to use a few notes from a symphonic cover of a 1965 Stones song in exchange for 50% royalties. Turns out those notes weren’t even written by the Rolling Stones.
N8kP TIL in the 13th century, in order to discover which language humans would speak naturally, Frederick II, emperor of Germany, placed 50 newborns in the care of nurses who would only feed and bathe the babies but not speak or hold them. The emperor never got an answer because all of the infants died.