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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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OG4Me TIL there is a modern world capital that is an uninhabitable ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is a modern Pompeii, destroyed by volcanic eruptions in the late 1990s
Ajmo TIL of Tan, a patient in a French hospital who was cognizant and alert, but had paralysis in his right arm. He could only say the word, “tan”. When the man eventually died, Paul Broca examined his brain finding a lesion in the frontal lobe, a spot we now call Broca’s Area.
R5p71 TIL most movies are displayed at 24 frames per second (fps). For context - most video games can look bad below 60 fps. The reason they still look "good" to us is because cameras capture "motion blur", which tricks the brain into nicely stitching frames together.
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PbGO TIL Adam West has a Batman Logo on one of his molars