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TIL in response to Million Dollar Baby, a disability rights group criticized Eastwood for having a vendetta against the disabled. Eastwood responded: I’ve gone around in movies blowing people away with a .44 magnum. But that doesn’t mean I think that’s a proper thing to do.

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9DwB TIL Blind people can get issued a guide horse. Miniature horses are used instead of guide dogs if the person is for example afraid of, or allergic to, dogs.
GNjE TIL Bill Murray and his brothers will call Mitch Glazer (Director of Scrooged) anytime they watch Roadhouse to let him know Patrick Swayze is having sex with his wife.
mxL7o TIL about objective tinnitus: a form of tinnitus that others can hear too
dpL9 TIL that Einstein and his wife once visited the enormous Mount Wilson Observatory with astronomer Edwin Hubble. When told that Hubble’s telescopes were revealing the ultimate shape of the universe, Einstein’s wife nonchalantly responded, “Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.”
dD0Wr TIL: Spider from School Of Rock (Lucas Babin) is now District Attorney of Tyler County, Texas