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TIL Vin Diesel helped produce and finance Riddick (2013) and even put up his house as collateral to get it made. “If we didn’t finish the film, I would be homeless.”

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4myw TIL that “darling” literally means “favorite minion.”
eD8k TIL that ‘Mitch’, a character from the 2012 movie ParaNorman, was the first openly gay character to appear in a mainstream children’s animated film.
VMJrm TIL That women are better at discerning shades of colours, while men are better at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance. These are evolutionary details linked to a hunter-gatherer past.
yQ7ZX TIL that Owen Baggett, a Texas native, is the only known person to shoot down a plane while parachuting with a .45 during World War II. He did this after his own plane was shot down and a Japanese fighter pilot flew near him with his cockpit open.
v10pr TIL that a day on Saturn is equal to 10 Hrs 33 Min and 38 Seconds (10:33:38) whereas 1 year on Saturn = 29 Earth Years according to the new analysis of Cassini data.