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TIL three "spec scripts" -- an unsolicited screenplay written in hopes it will be eventually purchased by a film studio -- have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay: Thelma & Louise (1990), Good Will Hunting (1994), and American Beauty (1998).

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5YBaR TIL The trivia (singular trivium) are three lower Artes Liberales: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education and an important building block for all undergraduates.
PY4Ln TIL that even though both actors were in the same film (The Godfather Part 2), played in films with similar genres and are regarded as good friends since before their success, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would not appear in the same scene together until starring in Heat in 1995.
oRW4R TIL Lincoln's cabinet was a team of rivals, including notable William Seward, who was initially resentful & condescending of the president. The two eventually became close personal friends, spending many nights bonding over stories, good humor, & politics, much to the dismay of other cabinet members
bBl4 TIL that 58% of Russians don’t know who built the Berlin Wall, 10% think Berlin residents built it themselves, 6% think Western powers built it, and 4% think it was a bilateral agreement between the Soviet Union and the West
gMZlA TIL There's a lesser form of mania called hypomania, a short period characterized by a decreased need for sleep, increase in energy, increased talkativness and confidence, and a possible increase in creative ideas.