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TIL Mike Myers based Austin Powers on his dad.

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wL558 TIL While filming Predator, Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1” bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s. He suggested to Arnold they measure arms, winner gets a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, as Arnold set this up with the wardrobe department
gLab TIL in 1995, the company Namco patented “auxiliary games” that play while the main game loads, thus forbid other game titles to have those. The patent expired earlier this year.
KOBB6 TIL the is a term for an "act of throwing someone or something out of a window" called defenestration. It originated in Prague when on two occasions (1419 and 1618) government officials where thrown out of windows, both times starting a war (the Hussite and Thirty Years War)
neG6G TIL Comcast subscribers pay ~$2.64 billion a year for channels they could get for free
BrGDK TIL Critics responded negatively to the use of nudity in the pilot episode of Stargate SG1, which was filmed at Showtime's insistence. Those scenes were cut or edited in future releases on DVD and TV.