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TIL a line of pillow talk in Fight Club was originally supposed to be “I want to have your abortion,” but Laura Ziskin, a producer at Fox 2000, found that too offensive and begged it be changed. It was changed to “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.“

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09vy TIL Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Walking Dead) worked on a script for ‘Indiana Jones 4’ for over a year; the results loved by Spielberg and Harrison Ford. George Lucas hated the drafts however, and Darabont told Lucas 'You’re insane’ before leaving the project.
oRp47 TIL that "Schrodinger's Cat" -- the famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics where an unobserved cat is both alive and dead -- was not proposed by Erwin Schrodinger to highlight the principle, but rather to mock its absurdity.
kJQm4 TIL "Starting with the first edition of the Farmers’ Almanac in 1818, readers used to nail holes into the corners to hang it up in their homes, barns, and outhouses (to provide both reading material and toilet paper)"
PYVEn TIL Claw machines are rigged,and the owner can program them to drop a toy after it gets picked up, giving you the illusion of near-success.
16e0W TIL a stray dog followed Dion Leonard, who was running in a week-long ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert, for 77 miles of the 155-mile race. At night the dog even started to join him in his tent. He named her Gobi, & after the race, he crowdfunded the £5K needed to bring her back to Scotland with him.