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TIL the 2012 Total Recall remake has a 130m director's cut that is 12m longer, features Ethan Hawke, and has a different, ambiguous ending. The theatrical cut was created because younger test audiences unfamiliar with the Verhoeven adaptation were confused by the story.

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m1Eex Today I learned, one morning in May of 2007, someone hijacked the local Disney Channel station in Lincroft, New Jersey and played a pornographic scene during an airing of Handy Manny during the Playhouse Disney block
woLM6 TIL in 2004, every single Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit was made by a Black artist.
R7KN4 TIL Panasonic attempted to develop a video game console with 3DO. The console was initially announced as an add-on chip for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and later unveiled as a standalone console. Ultimately the project was cancelled but the technology was used in some arcade boards and kiosks.
9GAD TIL that France sent 800 women to Quebec. The “Filles du Roi” (“Daughters of the King”) were poor women who in 1663 agreed to go to the mostly male New France colony to marry. It worked; the population more than doubled in 10 years, and two-thirds of French Canadians today are their descendants.
MeAaB TIL Christopher Boyce, a college drop out who despised the CIA was given high level security clearance to handle top secret CIA wires. He then sold these top level secrets to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The story was a top selling book and movie "The Falcon and the Snowman"