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TIL John Williams did the music for Home Alone

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0wVXM TIL GenX, is a known toxic chemical added into non-stick pans after a similar toxic chemical PFOA was banned due to causing cancers/birth-defects etc.
wonVJ TIL former wrestler Mick Foley retired to Long Island, where his local deli named his favorite sandwich order after him. That sandwich is a deluxe bacon cheeseburger, with peanut butter, and two Sunnyside up eggs, on a Kaiser roll.
d9nE TIL that while filming Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, Anthony Hopkins memorised a seven-page courtroom speech and delivered it all in one go. Spielberg was so overawed he couldn’t bring himself to call him Tony and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot.
loERB TIL about David Bamberger, a former fried chicken tycoon turned rancher that bought and restored 5,500 acres of the most badly damaged, overgrazed land in all of Texas, restored it completely and transformed it into a showpiece for environmental restoration.
gMQab TIL "Comrade Kim goes Flying" is North Korea’s first “girl power” movie and it was screened at numerous film festivals in 2014. The story of coal miner, her dream of becoming a trapeze artist is crushed by an arrogant trapeze star who believes miners belong underground and not in the air