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TIL Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson were college room mates and staged a break-in of their own apartment to convince their landlord to fix the windows. A private investigator eventually tracked them down.

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0wPx5 TIL 'Hello' as a greeting is credited to Thomas Edison. Hello likely derived from hullo, a expression of surprise, but was seen by Edison as good greeting for telephone conversations. Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting, but it didn't take off.
XElJr TIL that in 2009, author Nevin Martell wrote a book about his quest to get an interview Bill Watterson. He ended up not getting one, but did get interviews with some of his family and friends. A few months after the book, Watterson did his first interview since the conclusion of Calvin and Hobbes.
LaDm TIL Couples who originally bore no particular resemblance to each other when first married had, after 25 years of marriage, come to resemble each other. Moreover, the more marital happiness a couple reported, the greater their increase in facial resemblance.
XEP6P TIL the grisly scene in Pulp Fiction where Travolta jams a needle into Uma Thurman's chest to try to revive her from her overdose was actually filmed backwards.
jlR TIL Richard Belzer Has Appeared as Detective Munch (Best Known From Law & Order:SVU) on Ten Different TV Shows, from The Wire to Sesame Street. No Other Actor Has Portrayed The Same Character on that Many Different Programs.