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TIL it can rain diamonds in Uranus and Neptune

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J1mgB TIL the first known movie to use a special effect is the 18 second long film The Execution of Mary Stuart. The effect was the stop trick, involving the splicing of two shots, one with the actor playing Mary and the other with a mannequin, with the mannequin's head being chopped off.
Mee78 TIL in the 1930s, people were convinced to use their savings to raise and sell frogs. Problem was, no-one wanted to buy frogs.
e4m6 TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
aw4LM TIL that when Kubrick was researching for Dr. Strangelove, sexual metaphors for war came up so often that one of his consultants told a group of officers, "Gentlemen, you do not have a war plan. You have a Wargasm!"
b9dYE TIL when Michael Bay was 15 George Lucas made him work on the storyboard to Raiders of the Lost Ark and after seeing the movie in theater he decided to become a film director.