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TIL: In the the movie “Coming to America” (1988), the two hobos Eddie Murphy hands money to are the greedy traders (Mortimer and Randolph) that go broke in his previous movie “Trading Places”(1983)

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D1N4D TIL actor Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's eldest son who, while filming The Crow, was accidentaly shot and killed by a co-star with a prop gun that had a dummy round tip lodged inside the barrel. After a year of re-shoots the movie was released and met critical acclaim and is now considered a cult classic.
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yVDZV TIL that in space, two pieces of the same metal can fuse together permanently without any heat or welding—a phenomenon known as "cold welding."
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