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LQXAr TIL that over 90% of American movies made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist
9wXYB TIL Charlize Theron laughed so hard while watching Borat (2006) at theater that a herniated disk in her neck locked up, and she had to go to the hospital for five days.
x0Qw TIL after the Make-A-Wish organization offered to fulfill a 6-year-old girl’s request for a playhouse to be built at her home, the Home Owner’s Association where the girl lived refused to allow the construction. Only after a world-wide outpouring of support for the girl’s request did the HOA relent
Gy1N TIL that the first non-Caucasian pro basketball player, Wataru Misaka, later declined an offer because the “salary for a rookie and the salary for a starting engineer weren’t much different.”
VMVXG TIL So-called 'gut strings' for acoustic Spanish guitars were originally made from the small intestines of slaughtered sheep. The production material only changed - to nylon - during World War II, when all available gut was used in the production of surgical thread for wounded soldiers.