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TIL that this was the first ever video of Youtube
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TIL The Lord of the Rings films originally would have been released by Disney via Miramax but they chose not to fund it due to costs. They let New Line Cinema have it on the condition they pay $10M in "turnaround" costs. The LOTR trilogy will later on gross over $2.9B at the global box office.
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TIL about the only instrumental song to have been banned by radio stations in the United States: "Rumble" by Link Wray & His Ray Men.
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TIL Brandon Lee died while filming a movie which is dedicated to him and his fiancee, and that movie was written about the death of the author’s fiancee.
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TIL the 77 cent to the dollar statistic is significantly skewed, in fact young childless women actually earn more than their male counterparts.
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TIL due to rumours that his film "Cannibal Holocaust" showed real deaths, director Ruggero Deodato was accused of murder. The charges were dropped after the four allegedly-dead actors were interviewed for a television show and Deodato explained his special effects in court.