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TIL James Cameron sold the rights to The Terminator for $1 on the condition he could direct the film. He regrets making the decision to sell but he regains the rights back to the franchise in 2019 due to changes in copyright law

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Rmk4 TIL that when throwing punches in a dream, your punches appear to be incredibly weak due to your brain’s inability to imitate the effect it has in real life.
Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.
Y7jl7 TIL by the year 2100, the human race will have lost about half of the languages in use today. Every fourteen days a language dies. For native speakers of Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa, Ohlone or Aragonese, losing their language means losing cultural heritage and history.
p81Nb TIL that female dogs are more responsible for dead grass spots than males due to congealed nitrogen from squatting to pee opposed to lifting a leg and spreading it out.
N7wGe TIL a 2015 study rated pork fat as the 8th most nutritionally rich food in existence