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TIL in 1927 an experiment was begun to show that solid pitch was actually a liquid. 89 years later the pitch has produced 9 drips.

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akvN TIL Bill Murray was only paid $9000 to star in Rushmore. He also gave Wes Anderson a check $25,000 to film the final montage after Disney refused to finance it. Anderson never cashed the check.
j6Klv TIL James O’Barr, author of “The Crow”, approached The Cure’s Robert Smith to contribute an existing song for the upcoming film. Smith, a huge fan of the graphic novel, opted instead to write and record a new track, “Burn”, in 2 days.
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GlRE TIL that there is a completely unique English dialect spoken only on Tangier Island, Virginia. It is said to be almost the same as when the island was settled in 1686 and can be unintelligible even to native English speakers.