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TIL Quinten Tarrentino at 16, lied about his age to get a job as an usher at the adult movie Theatre in Torrance, California stating however “I hated porno movies...it was the most ironic situation: I finally got a job at a movie theatre and it’s a place where I don’t want to watch the movies.”

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EaDp TIL Simon Cowell’s first job was polishing Jack Nicholson’s axe in “The Shining”. He worked as a runner on-set and cleaned Nicholson’s axe between takes for the most famous scenes, making it so shiny you could see your face in it.
loy77 TIL Auto-Tune, introduced in 1997, which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances was named one of the 50 worst inventions by Time magazine.
Y7gA TIL that the Japanese enslaved as many as 410,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, and Southeast Asia to serve as prostitutes and raise the spirits of the Japanese soldiers. Approximately three quarters of them died and most survivors were left infertile.
7KVM TIL that in 2012, JC Penny implemented a “Fair and Square” policy that did away with sales prices and coupons that fool customers and instead priced everything at what it’s actually worth. Customers hated it, the CEO was fired, and the deceptive pricing was quickly reinstated.
b95Ya TIL that the north star is 4000 times brighter than our sun. The light we see when we look at the north star was generated in the year 1587, and it has been traveling through space for 434 years to reach us.