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TIL that Rupert Grint’s first movie outside of Harry Potter was a film called “Thunderpants”. The movie featured a young boy whose explosive and dangerous farts land him a job as an astronaut.

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xVMYk TIL During the NYC blackout of 1977, the crew filming “Superman” outside the old Daily News building on 42nd Street lent their klieg lights to the editors so they could see the newspaper pages they were laying out.
K08Q TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down his estimated $207,500 yearly salary stating it was “petty cash”. Instead, he “gave it back to the community” and didn’t collect a salary the entire time he served.
5MmP TIL I learned a 17yo killed 4 people and injured 11 while drunk driving. The judge didn’t send him to jail because he “was unable to understand the consequences of his actions because of his financial privilege”
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