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TIL in ‘22 Jim Carrey considered retiring from acting, and producers confirmed they wouldn’t recast Robotnik if he did. But they hoped to entice him with a great script. Carrey requested it be written in gold. In ‘24 Carrey confirmed his return for Sonic 3. Fowler joked the 24k ink script cost $100k

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OGedg TIL in 1967, a documentary filmmaker was shot and killed while filming a miner in Kentucky by the owner of the rented house where the miner lived. The killing was motivated by the growing resentment of journalists who descended upon Appalachia to document living conditions during the War on Poverty.
wL0P8 TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.
Va7Q TIL that the chemical that makes chili peppers hot induces pain in mammals, who would chew the seeds and destroy them, but has no effect on birds, who swallow the seeds whole and poop them out, serving to disperse them.
K4Kw TIL Mark Zuckerberg once advised that tech companies should never hire anyone over 30, stating, “Young people are just smarter.”
d8Gk8 TIL that the record for the most overdue library book is 288 years. The book was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge by Colonel Robert Walpole (England) in 1667–68 and returned in 1956.