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TIL that Stephen King hated the movie adaptation of The Shining. Conversely he thought Stand By Me is the best movie adaptation of any of his books.

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AvZn TIL Although Stan Lee gave the Hulk’s alter ego the alliterative name “Bruce Banner”, Lee misremembered it and referred to him as “Bob Banner” in some later stories, an error which readers quickly picked up on. To resolve this discrepancy he decided the official name is “Robert Bruce Banner”.
Zp7pD TIL that scholars believe the first act that set Genghis Khan on the path of becoming a conqueror & creating the Mongol Empire was rescuing his wife Börte from a rival tribe that had kidnapped her
JYP8B TIL Bruce Lee had his underarm sweat glands surgically removed in 1972 because he thought underarm sweat was unphotogenic on film. It’s theorized this may have contributed to his death through a heat stroke exacerbating the cerebral edema that killed him.
4XOwb TIL when Trevor Noah was growing up in Apartheid, his parents had to always walk on separate sides of the street, and whenever either parent was confronted about him, they had to deny that he was their child.
0BKA TIL in 2004, a Wal-Mart was built on a section of Teotihuacan. Ancient artifacts were shipped off to dumps by workers who found them on the site.