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TIL Mel Gibson was supposed to direct Good Will Hunting after making Braveheart. He developed the movie for months but wanted more time. Damon and Affleck got impatient and said they were aging out of the characters. So they convinced Mel to leave the project and let Gus Van Sant direct it.

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GPQN TIL Sylvester Stallone’s mother is a psychic, specializing in rumpology, who reads butts.
eAxE TIL a cast member playing Winnie The Pooh at Disneyland was falsely accused of slapping a young girl. When he was tried, he showed up in the Pooh costume, and appeared on the witness stand as the character. He was acquitted by the jury after 21 minutes.
16B0V TIL Malo kingi or the common kingslayer is an Australian Irukandji jellyfish named after Robert King - an American tourist killed by one of them in 2002. They are the smallest jellyfish in the world, the size of a thumbnail and hospitalise 50-100 people each year. Their venom causes haemorrhaging.
gd9A TIL a 32 year long study found that obesity spread through social connections, and that a person’s chances of becoming obese increased by 57% if he or she had a friend who became obese
awOlA TIL that the reason that pubs in England have such weird names goes back to medieval times, when most people were illiterate, but could recognize symbols. This is why they have names like Boot and Castle, or Fox and Hound.