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TIL Trailerizing is the common technique where movie trailers use an old pop song and keep the lyrics, but make it slower and moodier. Viewers, otherwise disengaged, will be pulled in to the new movie trailer by the familiar lyrics

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9w0y6 TIL: Mick Jackson, director of kooky ‘90s Steve Martin romcom, ‘LA Story’, is the same guy who directed the notoriously trauma-inducing British TV movie about nuclear apocalypse, ‘Threads’. These two films could not be more different if they tried.
gVmy TIL a man named Simon Bunce was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
6EvWQ TIL in an interview on the set of Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis predicts that in 5 years some kids would make a movie filmed exclusively on camcorders with poor lighting and a micro budget that would be a huge hit. 5 years after Pulp Fiction came out The Blair Witch Project was released.
l7lgr TIL when Third Eye Blind performed Graduate at the 25th American Music Awards, they substituted the lyric "can I graduate" with "can I masturbate".
Y7BGd TIL Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton was taller than Michael Jordan.