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TIL Titanic was predicted to be a monumental flop. Even director James Cameron thought he was “headed for disaster” at one point during filming. “We labored the last six months on Titanic in the absolute knowledge that the studio would lose $100 million. It was a certainty,” he stated.

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6EP5m TIL Coco Chanel made sun bathing fashionable. Historically exposure to the sun had been the mark of laborers and a milky skin used to be a sure sign of aristocracy. Chanel took in the sun, making suntans not only acceptable, but a symbol denoting a life of privilege and leisure.
AGaa TIL Traci Johnson, a healthy 19-year-old college student volunteer enrolled in a clinical trial for the antidepressant Cymbalta and shortly after hung herself at the testing facility.
OGR4 TIL In 1980 R2-D2 visited Sesame Street and fell in love with a fire hydrant
o8Ko TIL Ancient Egyptians belived that the universe was created due to an ejaculation and Egyptian Pharaohs were required to masturbate ceremonially into the Nile.
epBPb TIL that when domesticated pigs escape into the wild, they undergo a dramatic metamorphosis into feral pigs. They grow tough fur, tusks and become extremely aggressive.