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TIL Emilia Clarke read the words that revealed her character Daenerys Targaryen's fate 7 times in a row thinking "What, what, what, WHAT!?" because it "comes out of fucking nowhere." She also cried & went on a 5-hr walk that put blisters on her feet. Eventually, she stands by Dany's "Mad Queen" turn

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DQ4ve TIL All shellac (78 rpm) and Vinyl (16, 33 and 45 rpm) records start their information from the outside, spinning to the inside. Every other form of spinning data records created since then (floppy discs, hard drives, LaserDiscs, CD, DVD) records from the inside to the outside.
gdpA TIL David Prowse, the guy in the Darth Vader suit in the original trilogy, is banned by George Lucas from all Star Wars events.
bpyQ TIL the origin of the phrase: “The whole nine yards” is from WWII. The aircraft machine gun belts were 9 yards long.
8QOK Til that “Frankenstein” mummies were found in Scotland. 2 bodies made out of 6 people.
P1peL TIL About a 2009 boating accident that Nick Schuyler survived while his three friends, including NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, died. (Without Hope, by Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman, and Joe Carnahan said to be working on adaptation)