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TIL that Will Ferrell was at home watching a documentary on one of the first women to anchor news telecasts when her former coworker appeared on screen. He reminisced: ‘You have to remember, back then I was a real male chauvinist pig. I was not nice to her.’ This was the inspiration for Anchorman.

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wY9M TIL that the Gingko biloba tree species is 270 million years old, rarely suffers disease or insect attack and was one of the only living things to survive the Hiroshima nuclear bombing - the trees healed quickly and are still alive today.
eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
EgWp0 TIL: Jeff Daniels got paid $50,000 for his role in Dumb and Dumber, while Jim Carrey got paid $7 million.
X0kej TIL obstetric forceps saved more lives than any other [medical] instrument
nW0B TIL that in Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t want to say the line “I’ll be back,” as he thought it sounded too feminine