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TIL that Rosie O'Donnell watched Fight Club a week prior to its release. She later went on her show the night of its release and gave away the twist ending and advised the audience to avoid watching it at all costs.

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4XJJo TIL A study conducted on basketball matches looked at the effect of abusive spectators on the performance of players; it noted that when the crowd was being anti-social and abusive, the home team made far more violations than the visiting team.
b9xG4 TIL Actress Catherine Hickland, after her divorce from David Hasselhoff, married an actor named Michael Knight
loRB7 TIL Roy Cleveland Sullivan, nicknamed the "Human Lighting Rod," was struck by lightening on 7 different occasion between 1942 and 1977 and survived every strike
WarL TIL that the reason students have summer off is because, in the 1800s, it was simply too hot to go to school, so students just didn’t show up anyway. Lawmakers eventually saw the sense in this and fought for a school-free summer for students.
N7KBJ TIL That Spaceballs was originally going to be titled Planet Moron, but was changed when a film titled Morons from Outer Space was released; Spaceballs, despite the assumed innuendo, was a result of needing “space” in the title and Brooks considering it one of his trademark “screwball” comedies.