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TIL In 2005, 110 players won the Powerball by using fortune cookie numbers

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RNN9 TIL In the earliest version of Red Riding Hood she becomes a cannibal, eating her grandmother.
8agXP TIL Jason wasn’t planned to appear in the original Friday the 13th screenplay. Makeup designer Tom Savini had the idea to have Jason appear at the end because he had just seen Carrie and thought the movie needed a “chair jumper.”
9YmW6 TIL Some of the first "hard hats" were created by Native American "high scalars" working on the Hoover Dam. They would dip cloth hats in tar and wait for them to harden, protecting their skulls from injuries that could have otherwise been fatal.
RBnl TIL to pay for his film Clerks, Kevin Smith sold most of his comic book collection, maxed out several credit cards, used some of the funds for his college education, spent insurance money awarded for a car he lost in a flood, and worked in the convenience store used in the film.