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TIL that the Coen Brothers mistakenly cast Josh Brolin as the star of “No Country For Old Men” thinking that they were casting his father, James Brolin.

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7r0aL TIL the idea for In-N-Out signature crossed palms came from the 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, in which there’s a search for a buried treasure that’s hidden beneath four crossed palm trees.
nQl9 TIL that “Cotton Candy” is called “Fairy Floss” in Australia, “Grandma’s Hair” in Hebrew, “Father’s Beard” in French, “Ghost’s Breath” in Afrikaans, and “Girl’s Hair” in Arabic.
pYm8e TIL that a misreading of Persian-derived babr (tiger) as misspelled Russian bobr (beaver) led to a flag having a tiger-beaver hybrid
b9d40 TIL that future US President Ulysses S. Grant ordered all Jews be expelled from areas under his military control in 1862, blaming them for black market cotton trading. Lincoln overruled the order less than a month later.
kJ8Dm TIL: Types of BPD and How They Define Borderline Personality