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TIL Director Luc Besson started writing The Fifth Element as a novel when he was 16 years old. Twenty-two years later, it opened as the #1 movie in America.

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w1bM TIL John Malkovich named his film company after a Thai man (storied to be a convicted murderer) who was his driver during the filming of The Killing Fields. “Mr. Mudd” would run of bicyclists and old women off the road, and say: ‘Sometime Mr. Mudd kill. Sometime Mr. Mudd not kill.’
MeBX8 TIL the world record holder for fastest downing of a yard of beer was the Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke.
rowo TIL of The mangrove killifish, a type of fish that live in trees. They’re also hermaphrodites capable of producing offspring alone.
VQv0 TIL Hugh Hefner’s graduate paper at Northwestern University was titled “Sex Behavior and the U.S. Law” , where he concluded that almost every American would be in jail if all the laws against various sex acts were enforced
XRJD TIL H. G. Wells created a tabletop-esque war game, in 1913, called “Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books.” which can be read and downloaded via Project Gutenberg.