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TIL: Sony didn't believe that Aaron Sorkin's 162 page script for 'The Social Network' would come out under 2 hours. David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it aloud. The reading took 1 hour and 59 minutes, which was the exact running time of the final cut

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Y7mQv TIL Texas is the only state to have fought two civil wars to protect slavery
R7gpa TIL in 1981, a 27 year old James Cameron was working as a director on Pirhana II, when he was fired for failing to get a close-up of the lead actress. He then got food poisoning and during his illness had a nightmare about a robot sent from the future to kill him - the idea for The Terminator
jZaM TIL that there is an evil clown that you can hire to stalk and attack your child.
nEpP TIL the Christopher Nolan “Tumbler” Batmobiles were street-ready vehicles built from scratch, not shells on top of existing cars, capable of high-speed driving, jumping, and tight cornering.
0nWA TIL that in World War One, on the Russian front, wounded soldiers were often eaten alive by wolves