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TIL: To get Gene Hackman to shave off his mustache for the role of Lex Luthor in ‘Superman’, director Richard Donner promised to shave off his own mustache. After Gene had his removed, Donner revealed his was a fake one from the makeup department.

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YmeB TIL that Eve (meaning “life” in Hebrew) is made of Adam’s rib, because in Sumerian language word “nin” is a pun, meaning both “life” and “rib”. Whole story is based on Sumerian myth of Enki and Ninti living in Dilmun (Sumerian version of paradise), and pun was instrumental in translation.
v1Bxj TIL college textbook prices increased 90% from 1998 to 2016 while recreational book prices fell by more than 35% in the same time period
0Aa5 TIL that when the English colonial government in Dehli, India put a bounty on cobras to eliminate them from the city, it resulted in a cobra population boom. The bounty was greater than the cost of breeding a cobra, and the citizens were breeding them to sell to the government.
Lpx0 TIL the Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
xgl0 TIL two nearly identical men with the same name were the reason that fingerprinting was invented