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TIL when Robin Wright showed up at Rob Reiner's house to meet William Goldman, the door opened and "[Wright] was standing there in this little white summer dress, with her long blonde hair, and she had a halo from the sun. She was backlit by God. And Bill Goldman… said, 'Well, that's what I wrote.'"

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gMrPL [TIL] Our ancestors didn't sleep like us; they slept twice every night.
jN1NR TIL that the designations “left” and “right” in politics come from the seating arrangement during the French Revolution.
worwP Today I learned the Winecoff Hotel-site of the deadliest hotel fire in history, was advertised as being "absolutely fireproof"
kOKbB TIL of Inochi Tendenko (go separately) - the maxim in tsunami prone areas of Japan that dictates that the individual need not stay and help others but should run and preserve his or her life instead
6y18 TIL salmon sushi isn’t originally Japanese; it was introduced to the country through a desperate marketing effort by the Norwegian fishing industry, which had too much salmon