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TIL that Brad Pitt’s crazy, rapid speech in Twelve Monkeys was perfected by director Terry Gilliam taking away Pitt’s cigarettes.

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4eow TIL the Canadian rock band Rush stands third after the Beatles and Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band.
neY7d TIL The tiles on the space shuttle dissipate heat so efficiently that you can pick them up straight out of a 2200 degree oven.
Obo7 TIL in 2002 there was a live, 24 hour special on MTV hosted by Courtney Love, who was supposedly given control over what content would air. It ended with her crying on a couch for the last few hours.
gV18 TIL Only 1.38% of Little Boy, the bomb that fell on Hiroshima, fissioned. Yet is still had a blast radius of 4.4 sq. miles.
awwBo To build the world’s biggest telescope, you first need to cast, shape, and polish the world’s biggest mirrors.