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TIL, the actual span of time that was supposed to have lapsed in the movie Groundhog Day was around 10,000 years.

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rjw TIL that Summer was considered a bad time to release a movie in the theater because of low sales until Steven Spielberg’s JAWS.
l7JxN TIL about the 'battle of the farts' in 19th C Japan. '' In the battle of wind, the participants tried to knock others off their feet and caused the people to cover their nasal passages as a reaction of utter repulsion. It was indeed a battle of powerful, dangerous, and extremely noxious farts.''
0E1N TIL George R.R. Martin’s idea for Game of Thrones began with his pet turtles. He said, “I decided they were all knights and kings…and I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles.”
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awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."