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TIL "Pulp Fiction" was originally rejected by TriStar, with them saying "This is the worst thing ever written. It makes no sense. Someone's dead and then they're alive. It's too long, violent, and unfilmable."

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xVxQg TIL 75% of mammoth fossils are male, because "male mammoths—young, reckless, foolhardy—were just more likely to get into some kind of trouble and die, from getting stuck in a pit to running afoul of hunting humans." The tar pits, bogs, crevices, and lakes preserved remains well.
R7EQ1 TIL that extensive use of research in the development and production process of Blue's Clues inspired several studies that provided evidence for its effectiveness as a learning tool. Field tests showed that the attention and comprehension of young viewers increased with each repeat viewing.
VMRp8 TIL of Salomon Klass, a Finnish Jewish captain was nominated for the German Iron Cross who stopped a Soviet counterattack 7 times during the Continuation War between Finland, Germany and the USSR. He was among three Finnish Jews to get nominated for the award, they all refused it.
ADOg TIL that a CD of monks singing Gregorian chant made it to #3 on the Billboard 200
jN8dM TIL of Connie Culp, a 46-year-old Ohio woman who had been shot in the face by her husband. In 2004, after a 22 hour operation, doctors managed to replace 80% of her face with the face of another woman who had just died. This embarked the first ever successful face transplant in the USA.