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TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”

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16p5O TIL of James Lind a doctor, whose experiments are believed to have helped inspire both Frankenstein and Dracula. Lind died after not urinating enough for five straight years.
NX071 TIL when Captain Francesco Schettino was asked why he abandoned the sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012 while the ship’s passengers were either dying or trying to escape, his excuse was that he accidentally fell into a lifeboat. He received 16 years in prison for his role in the incident.
d8bmQ TIL that the USA and New Zealand are the only countries that allow to market prescription drugs directly to consumer.
N7Zo1 TIL The Star Wars (1977) attack run scene was heavily influenced by the Dam Busters (1955) bombing run (based on the true story of a low flying bombing run, deep in Axis territory, amidst enemy fire, with a very narrow target window to hit a weak point in enourmous enemy targets. Sound familiar?).
NL9P TIL that whale milk has 30-50% fat content and is often the consistency of toothpaste