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TIL that the Oscar-winning screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1996) was almost lost due a bug on Emma Thompson’s computer. Desperate, she asked her longtime friend Stephen Fry for help, who spent seven hours recovering the script.

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RGo1 TIL that David Bowie was next on Mark Chapman’s hitlist, after John Lennon. “Chapman had a front-row ticket to The Elephant Man the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front-row for that show, too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row.”
QxdL TIL In 2005, an inexperienced trader at a Japanese bank tried to sell 1 share of J-Com stock for ¥640,000. He accidentally sold 640,000 shares for ¥1 each; the equivalent of selling $3bil worth of shares for the price of $5,000.
e0wZg Apple is developing a TV drama called Swagger, inspired by Kevin Durant’s childhood.
e0XL5 TIL a Chinese woman won the 1992 gold medal in skeet shooting where she was the only woman in the field. Women were then banned from competing until 2000 where a women-only event was added.
YapA TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country” the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the ‘Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God’