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TIL Daniel Radcliff wore the same outfit each time he left a theatre for 6 months, in order to make paparazzi photographs useless.

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OGj96 TIL Clint Eastwood attended Oakland Technical High School, where drama teachers encouraged him to be in school plays, but he wasn’t interested in acting. According to Eastwood, all he wanted was “fast cars and easy women.” He took several auto mechanic courses and fixed several cars.
Wgbd TIL that Orson Welles, influential actor and director of the classic film “Citizen Kane,” ended his prolific career by playing Unicron, a planet-eating robot in “Transformers: The Movie”.
kORYe TIL in 1963 Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper, presented it to Ford Motor Co. and was hired. Ford fired him and took his technology. He sued Ford for patent infringement and after 12 yrs. of litigation, at times without a lawyer, the court awarded Kearns 10.3 M dollars.
neBm9 TIL despite being one of the most common elements on Earth, aluminum was hard to isolate until the 1800s. It wasn't widely used for everyday things like coins and foil until the 1950s and 60s. At one point in history, it was more valuable than gold
W7woN TIL; The title, "October Sky", of the 1999 biographical movie about teens studying rocketry as an escape from their coal town was an anagram of the novel it was based on, "Rocket Boys". The novel was then re-released under the title "October Sky" to capitalize on the interest in the movie.