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TIL that George Lucas was so sure that Close Encounters of the Third Kind would out perform Star Wars at the box office that he proposed to Steven Spielberg that they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other’s films. To this day Spielberg receives 2.5% of the profits from Star Wars.

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lom8N TIL a fan asked the studio making the 2018 Spider-man game on twitter to include a marriage proposal as an easter-egg which they agreed to do. They wrote "Maddie will you marry me?" on a theater marquee in the game but the couple broke up before the game was even released and it is still there.
D1Wrj TIL some of the most popular surnames 100 years ago, like Daft, Balls, Smeille, Death and Shufflebottom, are facing extinction due the their rude undertones. The use of the name Cock is down by almost 75%.
YOKx TIL a company that sells tv antennas sent Comcast a cake to congratulate them on being named worst company in America
OowEg TIL slavery was banned in the colony of Georgia for the first 15 years because the state was intended to help former inmates of debtors' prison become solvent. The colony's trustees didn't have any moral objections to slavery, they just didn't want landowners to become wealthy.
x658k TIL when Marlon Brando planned to get circumcized in the 1990s, he believed that his ability to meditate had given him a high pain tolerance and thus wanted the procedure to be conducted without using painkillers or anaesthesia. He was unhappy when he later found out that anesthesia is required.