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TIL Michael Keaton was so against Batman Forever, that even $15 M couldn’t sway him to reprise his role.

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loBXB Today I learned that Mel Brooks rigged up an extra finger for himself when he made his hand print in front of the Chinese Theater.
jNolN TIL there is an object in the asteroid belt named after Moomintroll, the illustrated character created by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson.
e0lJE TIL A species of Salamander called the Tiger Salamander have a unique way of controlling the population within their little society. If they sense their population has overgrown, they develop offspring with specially adapted heads and larger bodies to eat the larvae of their own species.
JYK8 TIL that “Mongolian BBQ” was unknown in Mongolia until a US-based restaurant chain opened a franchise there in 2005 bringing the concept that was actually invented in Taiwan in the 70s and inspired by Japanese Teppanyaki cuisine finally to the country it lent its name from
0dAgM TIL the first Ariane 5 launch failed because software engineers left redundant code from the previous version of the rocket. A 64-bit FP variable was made as an input to a 16 bit integer, resulting in an integer overflow that crashed the rocket's launch computer.