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TIL instead of providing famine relief, most of Live Aid's money went to funding an Ethiopian Dictator

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KOWbE TIL Jeff Lynne initially refused to allow the song livin' thing to appear in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights because he has a problem with sex and violence in films. However after PTA provided a screening, Lynne loved it soo much he allowed it to appear in the final scene and credits.
Z8YQa TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
vxy4 TIL To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood in “The Shining”, movie director Stanley Kubrick fed Jack Nicholson only cheese sandwiches, which he hates.
wo5QP TIL of the Siloam tunnel in Jerusalem, a 533 meter (1749 feet) long tunnel from ca. 700 BC and the oldest known tunnel in which two teams started in opposite ends and meeting in the middle.
VMdLZ TIL: If you gently press the bottom right corner of your eyeball through the eyelid, you see a little dark spot in the top left of your vision. This is because we see the world upside down, but our brain translate it so it looks right side up to us.