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TIL That Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have colonoscopy parties together

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v0BK TIL in the alternate ending of The Lion King, Scar defeats Simba by throwing him off Pride Rock to his apparent death. A fire then consumes Scar who stands there, laughing manically, while he burns to death. It was deemed “too dark” for a Disney film.
4bWR TIL that Steven Spielberg still gets 2.5% of profits from Star Wars because while visiting the sets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, George Lucas thought that movie would be a bigger hit than Star Wars. Spielberg disagreed and they both decided to trade 2.5% profit on each other’s films.
o1vA TIL In 24 states, you will pay sales tax on Hershey’s bars but not on Twix. This is because those states define candy as flour-free in their sales tax code and Twix contains flour, making it a grocery item.
6YxQ TIL that Pakistan is an abbreviation. It stands for Punjab, Afghan Border States, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan
bXw0 TIL that if there was no space between electrons and the nucleus of an atom, the entire human race could fit into the volume of a sugar cube.