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TIL the Monkees named their movie Head, so that if they ever released a second film they could use the tag line “from the people who gave you Head”

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kO5Zm TIL in 2018, only 13% of Swedes reported using cash for a recent purchase, down from around 40% in 2010. 80% state that they paid by debit card for their most recent purchase, 13% that they used cash and 7% that they used a credit card. The concept of cash-free bank branches began in early 2000s.
e0j0g TIL William Friedkin (Exorcist, French Connection) came upon the idea for the 'wrong-way chase scene' in To Live and Die in LA when he fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in the wrong lane with traffic heading straight for him. He spent the next 20 years wondering how he would use it in a film.
m1E4p TIL the band name NSYNC is a play on the last letter of each of the original band members names: JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC.
W5M8 TIL Canada has been sued more times through free-trade provisions than any other developed country, mainly by the US and Mexico for implementing environmental legislation.
VMdeB TIL about Judge Dread, the first white man who had a reggae hit in Jamaica. Only Bob Marley sold more reggae music in the UK during the 70s. Before he worked as a wrestler "The Masked Executioner", a dept collector and security guy for the Rolling Stones. He died walking off the stage in 1998.