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TIL Directors of the Crank movies let their Asian actors say whatever they wanted in their foreign language and was then later subtitled. Asian viewers then questioned why the dialogue being spoken by the characters didn’t match the subtitles.

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e0a04 TIL that Stardew Valley was created by Eric Barone who was the sole developer on the game. He did all of the programming, designed all of pixel art and produced all of the music. He graduated with a computer science degree in 2011 but couldn't find a job in the industry and made the game. Inspiring.
6EYaw TIL Johnny Cash performed dressed all in black, in contrast to most of the major country acts in his day – rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to explain that he wore black for the poor and hungry and those betrayed by age or drugs.
8aJ0K TIL in 1964 on Long Island, N.Y., 7-Eleven became the first chain to offer fresh coffee in to-go cups. The company expanded to-go coffee to nationwide. By the end of the decade, coffee lids began to come into their own too. In 1967, Philadelphian Alan Frank filed a patent for a tearable coffee lid.
8eB0Z TIL in 1980s, there was an anonymous leaflet that listed a group of food additives as carcinogens. It was widely circulated and caused a mass panic in Europe.
K5a9 TIL math dyslexia is a real, diagnosable condition called dyscalculia.