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TIL Eminem was asked to play the lead role in "Elysium", but declined due to him wanting the film produced in Detroit, his hometown. The role later went to Matt Damon

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BrGLL TIL In 1970 Florence, Oregan, traffic officials used 450 kgs of dynamite to remove the carcass of a whale from a beach. This resulted in whale bits covering spectators and even denting cars over 800 ft away.
4bWR TIL that Steven Spielberg still gets 2.5% of profits from Star Wars because while visiting the sets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, George Lucas thought that movie would be a bigger hit than Star Wars. Spielberg disagreed and they both decided to trade 2.5% profit on each other’s films.
b6O0p TIL - In 1967, the Australian Prime Minister disappeared while swimming and his body was never found…
emkJ TIL that the first foreigner to become a samurai was an african slave.
MeJv0 TIL that Alan Smithee was the official pseudonym film directors used when they wanted to disown a project.