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TIL Richard Linklater, director of Dazed and Confused, wrote a long first draft in about a month. He never made a penny off anything to do with it because he waived most of his rights to pay for the soundtrack

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mxDRx TIL Steven Seagal claimed to be immune to chokeholds. To prove it, he had a stuntman put him in a hold. Seagal promptly lost consciousness and shit himself.
d5Kr TIL: During the Cold War, Eisenhower secretly deputized 9 people, mostly CEO’s and other corporate Big Wigs, to run the country in case of nuclear attack
5VYyQ TIL about the Ryugyong Hotel, which North Korea has been trying to open since 1987
Rn4a TIL when Einstein met Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin remarked, “The people applaud me because everybody understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you.”
rR5R0 TIL if you successfully fake insanity in your criminal trial, then somehow convince your doctors you are sane, they will not release you from state hospital, they will consider you a psychopath, because only a psychopath would fake insanity to avoid punishment.