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TIL Judd Nelson got into acting accidentally. His first audition was so he wouldn’t get kicked out of watching his friend audition. He got the part.

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v41R TIL Martin Scorsese is banned from ever entering China, after making a pro-Dalai Lama movie in 1997
b6eO9 TIL Brumotactillophobia is the term for the phobia of different foods touching each other, a usual occurrence in the OCD experience.
MPwV TIL that Hugh Glass was attacked by a bear, had his leg broken and ribs exposed, was left for dead by his companions who thought he was dead, treated his injuries, and crawled over 200 miles for six weeks back to the nearest settlement, and then set out to find the men who left him to die.
OGBv1 TIL that dozens of indigenous women have gone missing in and around the Yakama Reservation in Yakima, Washington, USA. Some have been found dead, and most cases are unsolved.
nWJdY TIL that the famous keyboard intro to a-ha’s song “Take On Me" was inspired by The Doors’ organist Ray Manzarek. a-ha’s keyboardist Magne Furuholmen said: “Manzarek’s almost mathematical but very melodic, structured way of playing the keyboard was a huge influence in how I approached my instrument.”