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TIL From 2010 on, Inception and Gravity are the highest-grossing live-action movies that weren’t based on existing intellectual property

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x6pvD TIL that Judd Apatow wrote the 1995 classic Heavyweights.
8aKpK TIL that during the 1956 Olympic torch relay, veterinary student Barry Larkin tricked onlookers by carrying a fake torch made of a chair leg, a pudding can, and flaming underpants. He managed to hand it over to the mayor of Sydney who gave a speech without realizing it was a hoax.
LkLnZ TIL a single mirror produced in Venice in the 15/16th century was worth more than a painting by Raphael, and was about equal to the cost of a naval ship. The creators of the mirrors were so prized the Venetian government would send assassins to kill them if they absconded without permission.
8a1Kb TIL about Bone Music. In the USSR, Western music was banned, so bootleggers made and sold records out of old X-rays that preserved the bone patterns.
Zp4ea TIL that when Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette, she told him to get odd objects to prove his affection. They were J.D. Salinger's autograph, a Bob's Big Boy statue, a black orchid, and a Hill Tribe wedding outfit. Despite the list being intended to be impossible, he found them.