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TIL the 1999 Golden Raspberry Award ("Razzie") for Worst Actress was given to Heather Donahue for her performance in The Blair Witch Project

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vP8dD TIL the final line of Willy Wonka was originally written as Grandpa Joe yelling, 'Yippee!' The director hated it so much, he phoned up the screenwriter who was vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods and forced him to come up with a better line right on the spot as they were filming the ending.
6EVal TIL that the text in ReCAPTCHA security codes looks so strange because they're actually helping to digitize books and other text. The company has designed their system so that humans enter the words optical character recognition software can't recognize. Their old slogan was "Stop spam, read books."
MeeDV TIL that a cow-smuggling tunnel was discovered in 2017 under the India–Pakistan border.
wLMwM TIL: the eye may have evolved, independently, as many as 40 times
4XPrJ TIL Nicolas Cage did magic mushrooms after his cat snuck into his refrigerator and ate some.