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TIL in 2005, Scarlett Johansson once auditioned for what was supposed to be a role for ‘Mission: Impossible III’, but turned out to be an audition by Scientology matchmakers for who would be Tom Cruise’s new wife, which she politely turned down.

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a87My TIL In 1979 Fotomat started renting videos, 6 years before the creation of Blockbuster Video. Customers would order from a catalog, call the local Fotomat, and pick it up the next day for a 5 day rental at $12.95. They had exclusive contracts for Disney and Paramount films. Discontinued in 1982.
xLy0 TIL that the company that makes the Etch a Sketch was on the verge of bankruptcy when it agreed to let its drawing toy be featured in Toy Story 2. Although the scene featuring an Etch a Sketch was only 12 seconds long, it resulted in a 20 percent sales bump that helped to save the company.
N7lpJ TIL that there's some seriously damning evidence that the Balloon Boy "Hoax" was not, in fact, a hoax, but rather a case of extreme corruption in the justice system.
9YnZp TIL: Knack managed to initially outsell Super Mario 3D World in the UK.
E1Bno TIL about the Peak-End Rule – a cognitive bias whereby we tend to judge and remember an experience/event on the basis of how we felt at its 'peaks' (intense positive or negative moments) and at its 'end' (the final moments) rather than the sum total of all the moments of the experience/event.