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TIL at the 2003 Nickilodeon kids choice awards, in the award for favourite movie : Ice Age, Spider Man 2 and Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets were all beaten by eventual winner Austin Powers: Goldmember

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jNdZE TIL that Coca-Cola from McDonald's tastes different compared to plastic bottles and other restaurant chains thanks to unique storage system, water filtration, syrup-to-water ratio, and cooler temperatures
xV9nD TIL Author Robert Howard created Conan the Barbarian and invented the entire 'sword and sorcery' genre. He took care of his sickly mother his entire adult life, never married and barely dated. The day his mother finally died, he he walked out to his car, grabbed a gun, and shot himself in the head.
kJ6yB TIL about Kosher Switch, a light switch that complies with the Sabbath commandment by only working sometimes and hence doesn't count as intentionally lighting a fire
oBQ6W TIL in the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), When a corpse was revealed under the dining table, none of the actors actually knew that it was there –so the shock on their faces was absolutely genuine. Tim Curry had known beforehand because he was the one who had to whip the tablecloth off.
W7RMd TIL about the White Revolution, a sweeping -- and mostly successful -- program to modernize Iran. One element of it ended feudalism and gave farms to the farmers, but many of them ended up worse off than they were under feudalism. This caused a domino effect that led to the Islamic Revolution.