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TIL on the Friday that Fight Club was released theatrically in the US, Rosie O'Donnell revealed on her TV show that she had already seen it while urging her viewers not to watch it and spoiling the ending.

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4N5R TIL that up to 25% of the population may have trouble distinguishing between right and left, even into adulthood.