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TIL that when adapting Jurassic Park from the page to screen, Hammond was changed from a ruthless businessman to a kindly old man, because Spielberg identified with his obsession with showmanship.

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0wpkN TIL: When testing underwater acoustics during the cold war in 1960, scientists detonated a series of 300lb bombs off of Perth, Australia. This was heard three and a half hours later 10,000 miles away in Bermuda.
9wW86 TIL Tyler Perry has a private pilot license, and is a massive RC plane enthusiast and pilot. He owns a hangar full of massive RC planes, including an A380, 747, and a bunch of others.
kO0V1 TIL About 85 percent of the things you worry about never happen.
8eY4 TIL During the filming of the first shower scene in “American Psycho”, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself.
kOBM1 TIL there is a philosophical concept called the explanatory gap which is used to describe the inability to describe concepts. For instance, it is impossible to describe a color to a blind person and have them accurately understand and visualize that color.