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TIL Stephen King didn’t get paid for “The Shawshank Redemption” because he never cashed the check

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G4w4 TIL Tom Hardy (Bane) said that the most difficult parts of the The Dark Knight Rises to shoot were the fight scenes. Not because of the physicality of them, but because he was such a huge Batman fan growing up that he said “it felt like I was beating up my childhood hero.”
A99n TIL Dogs also wag their tails to spread their natural scent from their anal glands. Each dog has a scent that’s unique to him or her. Often, when we see a dog holding his tail between his legs, he’s frightened and doesn’t want to release his scent. This is his way of flying under the radar.
KOyvw TIL penguins need their feet to be bare despite walking on ice. Their bodies are so well insulated that they need the freezing cold to help regulate their body temperature and keep it from overheating.
gr0GD TIL of the pumpkin toadlet, a tiny frog the size of a Tic Tac that has trouble landing after a jump because their semicircular canals have gotten so small that they're not sensitive enough to be used to detect angular acceleration. They often end up flopping backwards or doing backflips instead.
awel0 TIL that Milton Friedman served as an advisor to Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.