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TIL in 2007, children were shown The Hills Have Eyes 2 instead of The Last Mimzy in a US cinema. The opening scene of THHE2 features a chained naked woman giving birth to a deformed baby.

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OMBL TIL that That 70s Show was remade into the British show “Days like These” with almost verbatim scripts. After it failed, the network just ran reruns of That 70s Show.
KyXJ TIL General Tso’s Chicken is an American dish. It was unknown of in China before it was introduced by chefs returning from the United States.
pYaZ TIL that there is an actual psychological disease which confuses people to think they’re in a dream. Like in Inception when Cobb’s wife kills herself because of this confusion.
rZAx TIL the “golden spike” didn’t actually complete the Transcontinental Railroad. Despite the well-known ceremony, the actual completion took place 15 months later in Colorado. Until then, passengers had to cross the Missouri River by boat.
YpZVW TIL Star Wars was one of the first films to do away with opening credits. George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the Directors Guild of America for not crediting himself... so he resigned.