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TIL that In the Terminator films Schwarzenegger wanted to dub his own voice in German, but his Austrian accent was considered too "rural" for the tough, futuristic role. A German voice actor was chosen instead.

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d8PEd TIL In 2015, a theater was filled with children to see the Pixar movie, Inside Out. However, the cinema accidentally played horror film Insidious 3. They got mixed up due to names being shortened to INSIDE and INSID3.
X0V1Q TIL the estimate of the Earth’s tree population, published in Nature, exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way.
VBRbZ TIL of Didymus Chalcenterus (literally Didymus Bronze-Guts) the most prolific known writer of antiquity who wrote between 3500 and 4000 treatises. He became known as "Book-Forgetter" since he was unable to remember what he had written previously and often contradicted himself.
plyA TIL: “shitstorm” has been adopted into the German language as, a perfectly polite noun meaning, an internet born controversy
j6ZKM TIL of Pigeon Guided Missiles where pigeons would follow an image, pecking at it, which would move the screen on its pivots. The sensors would detect the movement and send signals to the control surfaces, which would steer the bomb in the direction the screen had moved.