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TIL during the filming of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee was a guest on set and Gregory Peck noticed her crying after the first scene was shot. She explained that he looked just like her late father, right down to his pot belly. He replied, “That’s not a pot belly, Harper, that’s great acting.”

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WkW9L TIL about Wim Hof the Dutch extreme athlete known as The Iceman. Hof climbed to an altitude of 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) on Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes. He also has shared his regimen for battling the cold referred to as The Wim Hof method.
RlOw TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.
9w70Q TIL, The only letter not used in the Periodic Table is the letter J.
OG0R TIL that the patterns seen when taking hallucinogenic drugs are actually created by the arrangement of cells and interlinking of nerves in the eye and brain
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