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W5xN TIL for the film Dogma, Jason Mewes memorized not only his own dialogue but the entire screenplay, because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude”
4Xmrb TIL bananas used to have seeds. Kind of obvious in retrospect, but that is TIL in a nut shell.
ZYDv TIL in May 2009, Leonardo DiCaprio, along with Kate Winslet and director James Cameron, publicly pledged to support the financial future of the last living Titanic survivor, Millvina Dean, after it was reported that she had been forced to sell her mementos to pay for nursing home bills.
4weo TIL the tradition for standing during the hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah started because King George II stood during it at the first performance in England, and then everyone else had to stand up, and no one knows why George stood up.
9pdG TIL that Julia Child kept her phone number listed publicly. Anyone could just call her at home for cooking advice. Apparently on Christmas and Thanksgiving her phone rang nonstop and she took every call. What a woman!