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TIL that, in the early nineties, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg literally traded movie properties they were no longer interested in making. The films? Cape Fear (1991) and Schindler’s List (1993).

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N7bGN TIL that Eminem almost died from a methadone overdose in 2007. Shorty after being released from the hospital he relapsed but quickly after that he stopped using drugs and has now been sober for ~11 years. The reason he gave for gaining his sobriety is that his family needed him.
kOonB TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a serial killer who killed most of his victims as revenge including his own father who killed his mother, a group of gangsters who killed his girlfriend, and 47 other inmates in jail. It is suspected that he had over 100 victims
wLJpM TIL of Sidney Lewis, the youngest person to ever serve in the British Army. He lied about his age, and enlisted in the Army at 12 years old in 1915, and would go on to fight for several weeks in the trenches at the Battle of Somme before his mother discovered and requested he be discharged.
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