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TIL that JJ Abrams has made a deal with Valve to produce films based on Portal and Half-Life

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M76V TIL on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, John Carpenter used his phone a friend lifeline to inform his dad he was going to win.
Me0Ym TIL that the Mary in "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was a real person. Her name was Mary Sawyer, and she brought a lamb to her school, where it was seen by John Roulstone, who wrote the basis for the nursery rhyme.
mxN7P TIL of 'The World's Loneliest Man' who is a man from Brazil who has never been contacted by the outside world and who's remaining members of the tribe were massacred in the mid '90's.
Oomn6 TIL that in the movie Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill wore a prosthetic penis for his masturbation scene at the beach party. However, his fellow actors were unaware of this and their reactions are genuine.
mxlYR TIL that a “fossil word” is a word that is no longer used in general speech but remains in use because it is part of an idiom. For example, amok as in “run amok”, or turpitude as in “moral turpitude”. There are many other examples.