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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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BE7L TIL When Brahms was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1881, he strung together 4 popular student drinking songs into a symphony as a sarcastic thank you and premiered the song as the conductor at a special convocation.
78obX TIL that the idea for Fight Club is based upon a brawl during a camping trip in Washington State
mVxE TIL Mack trucks with gold-plated bulldogs indicate that the entire truck is made of Mack components, whereas trucks which use another manufacturer’s components are given a chrome-plated bulldog.
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.
Knb4 TIL that there are more African American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Finland, Israel and England combined.