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TIL Tarantino created the part of Jules in Pulp Fiction for Laurence Fishburne but he turned it down. This created a butterfly effect that actually made Samuel L Jackson get the part in Die Hard 3 which also written for Fishburne

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neBWG TIL Ben Gibbard, from Death Cab for Cutie, is an ultra marathon runner, regularly running 50/100 mile races
NMwe TIL that Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) had an affair with then-married Harrison Ford (Han Solo) during their filming of the Star Wars films.
b9B70 TIL that there have been two successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an UNSUCCESSFUL one in China that had to be reversed because the wife of the forty-four-year-old recipient panicked at the idea that he now had someone else's penis
rArw TIL despite claims of being inefficient, recycling is cheaper than mining and refining aluminum
XENaX TIL Brad Fiedel, who wrote the theme for The Terminator, said that the much disputed/odd time signature (13/8 or 12/8) present in the song was due to a timing error in the synths and sequencer loops which were synced by hand.