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TIL in order to prove to Sony that The Social Network would be under 2 hours despite the length of Aaron Sorkin's script (162 pages instead of the typical 120), director David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it out loud, which took 1 hour & 59 minutes. The final runtime was the same. (25:46-26:58)

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4knKN TIL the wheels of F1 cars are tethered so that in case of an accident they won't fall off and injure people
4kXB6 TIL the largest maritime evacuation in history occurred on 9/11/01. Over 150 vessels responded to the Coast Guard’s call for help and evacuated over 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan in just 9 hours.
x68K5 TIL that fractual burning, a hobby/side hustle that uses a 2,100+ volt transformer from a scrapped microwave to burn decorative, treelike designs in wood, has killed at least 33 people in the U.S. since 2017, and gruesomely burned many others.
loLR7 TIL that china is consuming more pork than ever before
W5oN TIL in 2009, KFC made an offer to cities in the US to fix their potholes for free as long as they could add “Re-Freshed by KFC” on top of it