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TIL comedian Tom Naughton made a documentary in response to “Super Size Me” to basically debunk everything Morgan Spurlock showed in his movie.

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5YbE8 TIL that Richard Donner received hate mail and death threats for making Superman (1978), which draws parallels between Superman and Jesus, with one letter telling him his "blood would run in the streets".
5Vojn TIL that the new bananas will appear to be growing upside-down due to a scientific phenomenon called negative geotropism
LX0P TIL That Weird Al Yankovic has a degree in architecture.
0wv5v TIL: after leaving for a trip and returning to find his pregnant wife had died and been burried, Samuel Morse spent the next 45 years of his life inventing the telegraph; trying to make sure no one felt the way he did that night.
WkLJL TIL of “Gay Bob”—one of the first homosexual dolls ever made. The anatomically-correct doll came out in the 1978 amid tons of controversy and was stored in a box made to look like a closet. Esquire awarded the toy the “Dubious Achievement Award” and the toy sold remarkably well throughout the year.