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TIL that Ron Perlman put on the make-up for Hellboy (a 4 hour process) just to fulfill a child’s Make-A-Wish request. He then spent the whole day with the child.

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6Ea0W TIL "Jaws" is not the name of the shark, in the movie or the book. The author (Peter Benchley) chose the title 20 min. before the book went into production, after mulling over ~125 other options. When asked "What does [Jaws] mean?" Benchley said "I don't know, but it's short & it fits on a jacket."
6EEeY TIL that Osama bin Laden's computer, alongside popular movies like Charlie Bit My Finger, it also had a 9/11 truther video
XEAdr TIL the band Kansas got their record deal by posting signs that said free beer when they knew a producer was coming to their show. They had a huge crowd and the producer thought that if they could draw a crowd like that he should sign them.
oRJ68 TIL that Ben & Jerry's had to apologise after inadvertently naming an ice cream flavour after a brutal paramilitary group.
Z8peD TIL that in order for MIT students to graduate, they must pass a swim test as it's deemed "a self-survival skill."