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TIL The Neverending Story film only features about one half of the original book, and was absolutely loathed by the author.

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rRrE1 TIL that when Upton Sinclair published his landmark 1906 work "The Jungle” about the lives of meatpacking factory workers, he hoped it would lead to worker protection reforms. Instead, it lead to sanitation reforms, as middle class readers were horrified their meat came from somewhere so unsanitary.
xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.
E156W TIL that spiders can fly :/
R709a TIL that Walmart's employees earn as much in a year as the CEO earns in an hour.
9wJxr TIL Thomas Boylan built a cabin out of dinosaur bones in Wyoming in 1932. He died in 1947 and the cabin has since been offered for sale.