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TIL American History X director Tony Kaye was so dissatisfied with the final cut of the film he spent $100,000 of his own money to take out 35 full-page ads in the Hollywood trade press denouncing Norton and the producer, using quotations from a variety of people from John Lennon to Abraham Lincoln.

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JY16Q Today I learned the area code for Cape Canaveral in Florida is 321 to mimic the countdown sequence of space craft launches.
Z8EDG TIL of Anandibai Joshi, the first female doctor from India. She was also the first woman in India to complete her studies in western medicine from the United States.
pYnnN TIL that baby chickens imprinting on a robot that was made to randomly move in a room affected the robots movements. This means that hoping for a song in a playlist on shuffle and getting that same song like you were hoping for may not be a coincidence.
mDdO TIL pikas (real-life pikachus) are adorable mammals from the mountains of the American West. They can overheat in temperatures as low as 75 degrees F, so they make specialized dens to stay cool even when 900 degree F fires roar just a few feet away.
EeLP TIL PBS painter Bob Ross become a star in Japan after a dubbed version of his show started airing twice a day there. When he visited Japan he was mobbed with massive fans.