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TIL Richard Linklater cast his daughter Lorelei as Samantha in Boyhood (2014) because of her early enthusiasm for acting. A few years into the 12-year shoot, she lost interest and asked him to kill off her character, but he refused. Later, Lorelei regained her passion and stayed with the project.

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41lg TIL a chemist cooked a batch of synthetic super-opiate and within months was taking the equivalent of 500 bags of heroin a day

N7nwb TIL Ryan Reynolds was on a Push Pop commercial in the 90's

Mew4K TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s

pYPD8 TIL the title to “Inside Out” in Spanish is a pun. It is called “Intensamente” which means intensely but also ends with the word “Mente” or mind

9wKKG TIL the Pirahã tribe has a very unique culture and language. Among other unusual features, they appear to be the world’s only people who lack words for numbers or any concept of counting. They also have no past tense, no way of describing colors, and no concept of the ancient past or distant future.