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TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that if your finger were the size of the Earth you could feel the difference between houses and cars.”

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W7voA TIL 70%-90% of detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention facility were mistakenly imprisoned
b96DN TIL Christopher Nolan had a cornfield grown for the farm scenes in Interstellar, he later sold the corn for a profit.
Z8mDv TIL Spaceballs wasn't the the first Star Wars parody, a 13 minute short titled Hardware Wars released in 1978 was the first. With a production cost of $8k and box office of $1million it even beat the earnings ratio of Star Wars. During a 1999 interview George Lucas named it his favorite.
7rp4b TIL on the set of The Princess Bride, André the Giant once "let out a 16 second fart and brought production to a standstill." Nobody said anything except director Rob Reiner, who said "Are you OK, André?" to which André replied, "I am now boss."
6EPn7 TIL that the author of Forrest Gump had a deal to receive a lump sum and a cut of the film's net profits, but Paramount reported a loss and refused to pay him the cut. He settled with Paramount and they bought the rights to the sequel, which has been stuck in development for over a decade.